I can't believe this is happening -- please wake me up.  My seven year old
son inexplicably opened a seldom used sliding door and no one knew the
ferrets were out and then he left it open for about a half an hour.  Three
of our four ferrets are gone.  Have been gone since 7 PM last night and it's
now 1:30 the next day.  I have done everything -- I was up all night looking
for them, have been out all day, calling, leaving flyers in mailboxes,
putting up signs.  I am just devastated.
 
It's WINTER.  Last night it was 20 degrees.  This morning, light snow.  Can
someone please tell me if there is any chance they actually survived?  I
need to know whether they can live through below freezing temperatures.  Is
there any hope?
 
Please would someone e-mail if they know anything about ferrets surviving in
snow.  And I have been out calling and calling.  If they are alive, why
don't they come?  I am sick -- I imagine they ran out last night, eventually
curled up somewhere to sleep, desperate, and just froze to death.  I can't
stop crying.  Kat
[Posted in FML issue 2191]