Hi everyone
 
I have been reading the FML now for about two weeks and have seen so many
stories about deaf ferrets, I know that in America you are used to these
kind of problems, here in Holland ferrets have only been sold in pet
shops for the last few years and we only started to get the color
definitions when pet shops picked up on the popularity of ferrets, about
a year ago I took in a ferret because he had started biting and his owner
had become to frighten to handle him, I only had him a week before the
vet said there was nothing more we could do for him, It broke my hart to
see what people will do for money, I wrote this poem for him when I sent
his soul to my treasure chest at the end of the rainbow
 
Stephenie
 
 
Toby
 
Toby was called a harlequin
 
In a pet shop he was sold
 
Toby never even reached the age
 
Of only two years old
 
 
 
Toby died all-alone in his dark and quiet brain
 
The last few days he suffered wrapped up in his pain
 
Manipulation of his genes for the want of human kind
 
Had left him deaf from his birth and later left him blind
 
 
 
Now if Mother Nature cannot always get
 
The formula correct, right down to the letter
 
What in gods name makes breeders think?
 
That they can do it better
 
 
 
Toby paid the price of mans superiority and greed
 
To breed a different color one nature had not decreed
 
He died in pain he could not hear and no longer see
 
Mother nature had not meant for Toby's genes to be
 
 
 
Toby died all alone locked in his dark world of pain
 
He would never understand the meaning of gentle hands again
 
Although I tried to help him He was locked up there to stay
 
All I could do for Toby was help him gently on his way
 
Toby was not meant to be
[Posted in FML issue 4317]