I put together a tiny something in sympathy to all those who have recently
lost ferrets or who are coping with terminal illnesses in their loved ones.
It's just a jot, a piece of treacle -- which may help loosen tears when
that's needed, as only a cloying gift sometimes can.
There come those days
when you find yourself paying coin
to the piper
without stopping his song;
wishing he'd miss a measure and
feel ego-bound to begin again
so that you could cavort a few steps more
than ever expected.
More sweat for your brow, more salt for same,
to dilute the tears
lost to silly kisses with whiskers thrust up your nose.
If you cry and laugh with memories then we
will remember with you
As you will too soon remember with us:
those fur-bound buzzes with barrel rolls
who so relished being baffled
by us doxies to their delights.
If this helps you at all, or you know someone it may help, feel free to
use it as you wish.
DICK: What types of photos do you need? Maybe there are folks here who
would be happy to help your books fund the shelter by donating photos of
their ferrets which may fit your needs. HOW ABOUT IT, FOLKS? Would you
like to have your fuzzy's pictures in a book and help a shelter at the same
time, at the cost of a postage stamp?
It was good to get so much private mail about my post on scams, but not so
good to hear that there are folks out there who have been through it. Many
thanks also for the public support. Some people wanted to know how a
shelter in an FFZ could be verified. You have heard useful information from
others which will help. Some other approaches may be if shelters in FFZs
arrange to be visited by representatives of legalization efforts in their
area. Then the members of those efforts who are already known to the fml
(and whose own reputations have been verified by newspaper accounts of their
legal wrangling) could post a report, and perhaps even agree to funnel
monies to the shelter's vet for a 10 to 20% handling fee that would help
finance legalization efforts if the shelter operator wanted privacy rather
than vet-direct donations. Another approach would be for the shelter
operator to issue an open invitation to well-known ferret activists already
here to visit. Whether the area is a city, county, or state there are sure
to be some folks who fit the bill and are not a long drive outside the area,
or who will be visiting for business, conference, or other reasons.I did NOT
receive EVEN ONE negative reply from shelter operators or contributors to
the idea of monies going directly to a veterinary hospital.
DAVE, I don't have it handy, but search through references from a few
decades ago (the 60s, the 70s?) for the study which was done to see which of
several species could contract rabies by eating contaminated remains. A
few, including ferrets, did not.
Norma-ann, if your vet will not call and talk with the research staff at the
drug's manufacturer, you should. (This is not only a useful ploy when a vet
is unaware of such important aspects as the IMRAB testing history, but also
when using meds not commonly given to critters. With the latter there may
be aspects, such as avoiding exposure to saliva as much as possible, which
are critical to a drug's function, but not normally mentioned in the package
inserts since humans could swallow a pill whole (rather than needing the
medication given in another way, such as ground-up and in Nutrical.))
R&M still with us. Hanan said that if R. avoids more bouts of congestive
heart failure she may have up to 8 weeks, but most likely will leave us
within a month.
BOB, Send your university department address for the osteology donation.
Sukie, Steve, Meltdown, Ruffle, 'Chopper, Spot, Meeteetse, and Warp
[Posted in FML issue 1619]
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