Dear FML friends,

A few weeks ago I wrote in about our elderly girl, Roxie, who seemed
to no longer be digesting her food properly and just kept eating and
eating. After my husband took her into the local ferret specialist,
they determined she was not in pain and was without tumors or
blockages, but that her digestive system with simply no longer working
properly. So we brought her home to hospice her for another week.

Last week she grew too weak to even move from her sleeping bag, so we
knew it was time to let her go. Our gentle girl did try to bite the
doctor one more time when they gave her the injection, so she went
down fighting.

I have been owned by fuzzies first in the States and now in Germany
since 1997 and feel so fortunate to have finally experienced old age
in a ferret. Roxie's 9th birthday would have been today! My many
other ferrets all died "early" of the usual ailments and on the
usual medication and it was a joy to watch a healthy ferret grow
old naturally for once.

Thank you all for your companionship through the years, we're going
to take a pet break for the next year or so and then see what happens
next.

Kisses to your little ones!!
Emily in Germany

[Posted in FML 6678]