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Arthur Grondine <[log in to unmask]>
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Couple of itmes for the FML.  First, if no one;s reported it, Ferrets have
a 14 day quarantine in CT.  I'm writing today to the state vet to get some
additional clarification.
 
The other is a LONG OVERDUE update on Mira that I'd appreciate if you'd post
for her buddies.
 
Thanks!
 
Ann
 
Ferret Weasel Their Way Onto House Pet List
By Carolyn Moreau, Courant Staff Reporter.  Reprinted from Friday, March
13, 1998 edition of The Hartford Courant.
 
[Moderator's note: The article was deleted due to copyright concerns.  BIG]
 
MIRA Update - March 15, 1998 Our apologies, once again, for the delay in
updating everyone on Mira's progress.  We kept hoping that we'd be able to
report on Mira's surgery, but as of yet, she is still in a holding pattern.
She is still scheduled to have reconstruction surgery on her leg, but once
again, the date has been postponed indefinitely until all the healing that
Mother Nature and time provide has been exhausted.
 
We can report that Mira has become quite the brat!  It's amazing just how
quick animals (and some people too!) can turn a disadvantage into an
advantage!  In her case, Mira has learned to play on the emotions of the
shelter staff to get her way and to get away - with close to - murder!  Yes,
Mira nips!  She will tackle hands, fingers and, when the spirit especially
moves her and she thinks no one will catch her, ankles and insteps!  Her
secret?  Knowing just how to be exceptionally cute and doing her very best
"roll-over-on-your-back" and "who could hit a poor, physically-challenged"
handicapped ferret?  No one can, of course!  So, we've had to take to
putting her back into the "old lady room" whenever her exuberant spirit gets
the better of her usually fine temperament while she's out in the "main"
section of the house for her continuing nightly physical therapy sessions.
 
Physically, Mira continues her Mira-specialized hoping and side leaping.  I
continue to try to get a photo of her in her very special Mira pose which
looks more like that of a prairie dog than a ferret's!  It's her way of
climbing up higher to get a better view of the world - instead, she sits up
on her hind legs and can almost twirl halfway around in a pirouette to see
what's happening!
[Posted in FML issue 2255]

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