All is not well here, but hopefully it's looking up.  We lost Pinky, the
little girl who wasn't eating well as of my last post.  She had a major
seizure and died on the way to the vet's office.  One day she was okay, the
next she was lethargic, and then that was it.  The list of possibilities is
quite long; all we know is that it wasn't anything contagious.  She was in
no pain as far as I know.  Poor little girl--she was (supposedly) only two.
She and her sister Lucy came in together.  The man dropping them off went
to a lot of trouble to explain that he wasn't being abusive... but I've
never seen two two-year-olds with so many health problems.  Pinky was a
tiny thing, and he said she always had been.  Lucy had a swollen vulva we
noticed about two minutes after we left.
 
Which brings me to the reason things are looking up.  Lucy just had her
surgery, and the vet removed something he's pretty sure was a piece of an
ovary.  She's a Marshall Ferret, so we'll be getting in touch with MF as
soon as we get the lab results back.  Lucy's terribly thin, but doing
well--her incision's healing and she's drinking a lot, although she doesn't
have much of an appetite.  She actually wanted out of her isolation cage
last night, and spent half an hour trotting around the living room.  She
looked kind of like a hyper ferret in slow-motion, especially when she was
trying to break into the ferret room.
 
We did bring one or two of the others out to play with her for a while,
too--she was lonely.  No one played rough--just lots and lots of
ear-grooming.  :-) When she got tired, she looked up at her cage and waited
for us to put her back.  What a wonderful little girl.
 
Once Lucy recovers, she'll be available for adoption... the ironic thing is
that we have another ferret available, and neither of them can go to homes
where they'll be the only ferret, but they hate each other with a passion.
Sigh.  Oh well.
 
>Does anyone else have a Silver that instead of getting whiter, they got
>more silver?  She's turned *very* silver, more silver than white on her
>back, although her tummy is still white and pink.  Still has her beautiful
>little smudges under her eyes.  How anyone could have given her up is
>beyond me!
 
That's Mozart, a deaf boy who's normally, well, in winter, kind of dark
silvery brownish green... honest... with a white face and smudges for a
mask, white front toes, and a white tip to his tail.  This summer, he
turned a gorgeous dark silver.  I think it's a color that LIFE calls "heavy
silver." Mozart's a sweetie.  We didn't know he was deaf for ages, because
he's got the cuddliest disposition of any ferret anywhere... we just
thought he was kind of stupid.  :-)
 
Jen and the Crazy Business
[Posted in FML issue 2764]