It's been a couple of weeks since Wes went to sleep on Earth and
awoke in Heaven. He was 76 at his passing and an animal lover all
his life with especial devotion to ferrets as the Pres. and CEO of the
now-closed Ferret & Dove Sanctuary in northwest Florida. You see in
Heaven and at the Rainbow Bridge nearby, no-time passes...it's always
"now" just as all the animals and birds already know while they're
sharing the Earth with the rest of us. So last night Wes sent his
saddened wife, Susan a specially-nice dream... showing him younger and
hearty, striding towards and being striven-towards-by a tremendous
concatenation of critters, including hundreds of ferrets who've passed
our doors...

There was Smokey Joe Oldster who had been fed nothing but birds' seed
by his former owners and was turned in to us by the animal cops of
another county's than ours. There was Zeus Mellowfellow, Jasmine Miss
Boss and Zinc(-a-dink-a-zoo) who were the first three we ever rescued
after Snuggles LuWeasey, also there, and each with the bright-furred
glows of health and youth. There were some of his personal favorites
like Duff MacDuff and Appolonia Kissyface who became local sensations
after our first local news interview. We brought these two to a local
renaissance faire and folks were going, "hey, we seen you on TV!" (to
the ferrets:) Everyone looked fantastic and each individual ferret,
dog, cat, rabbit, guinea pig, hamster, dove, cockatiel, even some of
the wild birds and squirrels we had rescued, revived and then turned
over to the local Wildlife Sanctuary for releases back into one of the
National Parks, even some of them were on-hand. Wes was surrounded by
animals and birds of nearly every sort, but overwhelmingly more than
any other by the ferrets he so loved and whom he lived to get his
ferret-kisses from.

In a supernal glow of love that enveloped this enormous group with one
very happy human spirit at its center, they faded from my dream-vision
and I awakened, still feeling that huge loving glow.

[Posted in FML 6864]