Thank you all so much for your support and sympathies.  There have been so
many notes and cards that I have not had a chance to respond to everyone
yet, but your kindness is greatly appreciated.
 
So far we have been told of special sweetnesses toward people's ferrets,
shelter donations, a sponsored ferret, and two rescued ferrets in Meltdown's
memory.  We plan to send $200 to the Morris Animal Foundation to further
ferret health research in her memory, also.  Steve says his dream is that
Bill gates decides to buy California in her memory and decree ferrets legal;
that made me laugh and cry at the same time.
 
The little one are sleeping with her toys, and everyone here misses her
horribly.  Steve kept getting up last night to check on her but she was
gone.
 
On her last night she played the body parts game with Steve, showing him her
hands when he asked for them, stratching out her belly when he requested
that, and so on, but by late that night she could not walk without support,
and the next morning the clot thrown to her kidney was painful, and then she
stroked again and injured her neck during it.  It would have been cruel to
force her to linger.
 
There's a place near us, just inside a woods where she used to like to watch
geese at a neighboring pond and sniff the plants.  She's there, and we've
put a lily and some forget-me-nots with her.  later we plan to add other
flowers since she so loved their smells.  Some of her carnations are with
her and we will refresh them as we visit.  meanwhile the ones here will
remind us of how she loved to thrust her nose into carnations and they wil
help us heal by amking us smile about her.
 
thanks again for all the kindesses to her anf to us.  I can't wite much more
because I am crying, but we want you all to know how special you are.
 
Sukie and Steve
[Posted in FML issue 1894]