Boy this is some kind of fun!  I love car rides.  New sights, new smells,
adventure galore.  Yes!  And I get to be the only one going this time.
You gotta love car rides if you're a ferret, my friend.  Where are mommy
and daddy taking me today?  Gosh I hope it's that school place again.
The new smells there paint such a neat picture for me.  I get hugs and
attention from everyone at the school.  And I really crave smell and
touch because I'm deaf.  We're finally here, and here comes daddy to get
me out of the car now.  Oh wow, it is, it is, it is the school!
 
The hallway is a really fun to go through.  Look at all the kids looking
at ME.  Wow.  Yes, I am pretty... I know.  Uh huh... yup, I'm a ferret.
My dad tells me I'm adorable to, I know.  Here we go right into the
classroom I know and love.
 
"Is that the ambassador?  Is that him?  Can I hold him now, can I?  Ooo I
wanna walk him, did you bring his leash," asks Alicia.  Alicia is tall,
and dark with bright eyes.  She's so pretty.  She makes all kinds of
faces, smiles, and moves her mouth all the time so she is fun to watch.
She can't sit still anywhere at all just like me.  Boy I can relate to
her.  The teacher is chastising her, I know she has to, but I wish she
wouldn't.  She keeps petting me even though everyone says to her that she
has to wait for her "time".  I like how she is.  She's a real fighter.
Ooo, look over there... all the kids are waiting just for me in a circle.
I'm the star afterall.
 
I don't like this part.  This is the part where Mommy is moving her mouth
a mile a minute... telling stories to the children.  Thank God I can't
hear, you know.  Daddy keeps holding me and I want down, I can't help
myself but to wiggle because I want down.  I'm just like Alicia, my mommy
tells me so (I can read lips... pretty nifty huh?).  Ooo, everyone jumped,
what happened?  I can't hear so I don't get scared from what mommy calls
sounds.  Oh, that's what it was, that little boy, Malcolm, dropped his
chair.  How do you drop a chair?  Well you just never know what will
happen here, the children are special.  They are differently abled and so
interesting.  It's so much fun because there is so much to keep me busy
and entertained.
 
"Miss Rebecca, Miss Rebecca, is the one that can't hear?  Why he don't
have hearing aids like us Miss Rebecca?  Can I hold him yet?" says Alicia.
My mommy is so understanding of her and has a way of calming her down
without being hard on her like some grown up humans can be.  Mommy says
it's not her though and that it's all me.  That I calm her down, and
that's why she is able to behave.  I don't get it.  All I do is look
pretty.  Oh finally the best part.  This is when I get to visit each
child quietly... whatever "quietly" means.
 
I get to see Alicia in the beginning of the visiting time a lot so she
won't have to wait long since it's so very hard for her to wait.  Alicia
is neat.  She is so ferrety.  I mean she isn't scared of anything, and she
thinks she can do anything!  I remember when I met her, she just reached
right out to grab and hold me when she didn't even know what a ferret was.
Is that cool or what?!  She gets so overexcited, mommy used to be scared
she would squeeze me too hard.  So mommy never has let her hold me alone.
But Alicia doesn't care.  She only has eyes for me.  Mommy says she is
misunderstood, and that she feels bad for her because she can tell the
teachers get really tired of how aggressive she is socially and how loud
she always is.  What is loud?
 
Anyway, I can be myself around Alicia and wiggle and sniff her face.  Get
right up there.  She smells so neato!
 
Mom says I have a gift.  All I know is I love the kids and I treat them
all differently.  They all smell unique, and are beautiful.  So I'm
different ways with each child.  That is why mommy says I'm gifted.  Like
I am really careful when I spend time with Zack.  He pulls away and acts
scared if I touch his face, or move too much.  If I just lay on him, he
pets me all over though.  And Emily, wow, if I don't let her squish and
hug me all over the place she will stop making that big funny smile I
like.  When I visit Michael, he likes to watch me just be a ferret.  I
have to be gentle around him so he will touch my tail and pet my back.
Let me tell you, everyone here is so special.  Mom says I'm special too.
She says I'm differently abled like the kids.  Well if I'm anything like
them, I know I'm something special for sure!
 
Wolfy
 
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[Posted in FML issue 3706]