Hi everyone:
 
Thanks for the encouragement.  After 4 days, I was losing hope.  I did all
of your suggestions and also called the police station (we live in a rural
area and they aren't real busy).  Also one day I was walking around ,shaking
the ferrets food can (they respond to that noise) a police man was patroling
in his car.  He eyed me up real hard (wondering what I was doing).  I
approached him and told him what I was doing and that I had already reported
it and the police had my number if he happened to see any ferrets while on
patrol.
 
Saturday was day 6.  I was really without hope.  I felt so guilty.  I was
sure she was starved or killed by another animal or died of thirst.  A man
called the police to tell them his kid had found what he thought was a
ferret (not sure), but the dispatch person said "No one had reported one"
The police man that I had stopped in his car was standing there and
overheard the conversation and said "He was sure one was lost and to look
all over for the report." They found my number and gave it to the man.  I
was so happy to see her.  She was happy to be home too.  She pigged out and
slept for 2 days.  I'm sure she was lost.  She had wandered too far and
would never have found her way back.  Thanks to this kind man we are
reunited.
 
My children have promised to be more careful with the doors.
 
Thanks again:
Buffy
[Posted in FML issue 1889]