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Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:13:00 -0500
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Linus, our 6 year old Champagne colored male ferret (his hair was
mostly white as an oldie, and sparse, as he lost his coat due to
adrenal which we are trying to get under control) passed away this
afternoon around 1:30ish, after a short but tireless fight with
mega-esophagus. Our 'Big Fat Linus' who has always been the fattest of
them all and loved his kibble, treats, and especially his baby food
'gravy' twice a day. It was so sad to see him not be able to keep
anything down for the last 7-10 days. We tried so hard to save him,
we took him to every vet we could think of and even a specialist in
NYC who has written textbooks about ferrets! We did so many tests on
him before we realized this was a true, rare case of megaesophagus.
Hopefully the necroscopy tomorrow will help ferrets in the future with
this horrible, ugly condition. Linus was a people lover and a bit of
nervous-nelly, would follow us all around begging to be picked up and
petted, especially on his forehead. You could tell he was comfortable
by when he would do a little shake and really settle down, he
especially loved sleeping on his mother's tummy or around her neck. No
one could ever soothe him as much in these last days as his dad though.

Linus would be met by Franklin at the bridge, a black and white panda
ferret who died in October of 2007 after a battle with kidney failure.
His bonded pal, Barry, is running all over the house looking for him
even after he got a chance to smell him after he was gone. He will try
to make do with the other ferrets I'm sure. Linus might be thankful
that Barry is no longer.ahem.trying to mate with him.(we are trying to
get that under control). I hope he has a full coat now, all he can eat,
and someone to hold him and pet him until we hopefully meet again one
day.

Thank you.

Cheryl Langfeld & John Stashkevetch

[Posted in FML 6260]


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