For the holidays, I want to share a quote with you that is on my vet's
web page. I found it to be quite beautiful and so true. It applies to
all animals.

"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of
animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated
artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of
his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image
in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their
tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein
we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man.
In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and
complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never
attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren,
they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves
in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and
travail of the earth." -- Henry Beston, naturalist & writer

Happy Holidays to all, whatever ones you celebrate. And many treats &
kisses to the ferrets and other creatures you share your life with.

Shron

[Posted in FML 7639]