At 3:00 AM -0400 4/16/99, Automatic digest processor wrote:
>use only distilled water for your ferret..that way you know just in case
>that there is nothing in it....
 
If using distilled water check with your vet to find out about mineral
supplementations.  Tap water contains not only water but also a number of
minerals needed for health.
 
Anonymous wrote:
>I read (actually try not to) all these gut wrenching, heart breaking
>painful posts of losses.  This is a very naive question but ... how do you
>fellow readers, read these things and get on with your day?
 
I try to find at least one furry and owner I can help each day unless my
schedule is completely blown away -- that means that I concentrate on hope
rather than loss.  Works for me...
 
CJ wrote:
>where ferrets are treated like gold, and if ferret poop was gold I'd be a
>millionaire!
 
Love that!
 
Worded something badly yesterday -- using the chamois meant the hands were
NOT right there so the ferret wasn't directly facing a body part which has
meant pain, yet, the hands were close and nothing terrible was happening.
Time is scarce commodity here so at times I word things carelessly or
tersely without meaning to.
[Posted in FML issue 2650]