Romeo is a very sweet ferret in need of your help.  He suffered a broken
leg last Sunday.  However, the owner could not afford the medical care
involved in getting it repaired.  He was also hesitant to give Romeo up
to someone who could care for him and pay to get his limb repaired.  It
was a clean break and the leg has been dangling for the past week.
 
Through the efforts of some very wonderful people(thank you Reanee and
Randy!), Romeo will receive the medical care he so desperately needed.
The surgery to repair this type of break would normally have cost $1,000,
but is now double that; because he went so long without medical care,
his muscles have begun to shrink, pulling his bone in 2 different
directions:-(
 
Randy Belair(of Ferret Aid Society) said that due to it being such a bad
break, "the ortho surgeon is worried about the bones knitting together
because the break is a week old.  This surgery is going to be tricky and
in order to try to save his leg, they may have to cut his bone slightly
in order to fuse it back together."
 
Now the surgery will be costing Randy over $2,000.  Randy was absolutely
wonderful for taking this boy in and making sure he got the vet care he
needs, especially on such a short notice.  Even with everything else
going on in her life, she took him in:)   We are in desperate need of
donations to help pay for Romeo's surgery!  If you can find it within
your heart to make a donation, please do.  You can donate by going to
the Ferret Aid's web site http://www.ferretaid.org and clicking on the
"donate now" button.  Randy was able to put a $500 deposit on the
surgery, but she will have to pay the balance by midweek.
 
Please donate whatever you can; for everything that Randy has done for
the ferret community, I don't think it's asking too much:)
 
BTW, even with all the pain he's in, Romeo is still a very sweet boy:)
 
Thank you in advance for any help you can offer!
 
~Nancy
 
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Director/Coordinator
Ferrets Across America
http://www.geocities.com/ferrets_america/
[Posted in FML issue 4033]