Dear folks;
 
Hopefully you all had a very good Christmas.
 
My Christmas was wierd.  My son hosted this year and present opening time
and dinner was very nice.  He appreciated the cappicino machine I bought
him & made some for everyone.  He got called away for a couple of hours due
to someone needing their furnace fixed fast, he's a certified heat & a/c
person, but he returned sooner than he thought it would take.  In the
evening he & his wife & new daughter (11 mos.) went to pick up an aunt from
the airport so I went home to feed & clean.
 
What I didn't mention to anyone was in the morning Mr. Spaz looked very
tired.  The last night before he didn't want to eat very much.  I had just
thought I hope he makes it thru Christmas.  When I was feeding him he only
ate about 10cc, he usually has 30-40..  He was definite in refusing more
food, so since he was cutting down the ammount of food he would accept the
last couple of days as well, I received the impression that he wanted to
leave.  I guess after 6 months of hand feeding that started with the flu,
and 6 courses of 4 different anti-biotics, he was just tired of the routine.
I had even tried B17, human gamma gobulin, and B12 with no positive results.
He ate nothing but the recipe I syringe fed him for several months now.  As
the evening wore on, his temp was dropping so I put a heating pad in the
tray under his cage & called Dayna for advice.  Seeing him goto the side of
the cage without the pad, it seemed definite he wanted to go.  I only hoped
he would not be in pain as it was 10pm, Christmas night.
 
He made it thru the holiday, and while I was holding and stroking him at 10
minutes past midnight he no longer blinked his eyes, and becoming still I
saw him not breathing.  I was quietly thankful that he did not have seizures
or cry out in pain as I've heard some people have experienced.  He was 4 1/2
years old, a MF ferret.
 
My son was over this afternoon & we laid him to rest in a nice green area of
the grass.  I was remembering today how he romped with Sadi like they were
attached by an invisible cord, her nose right by his left shoulder:)
 
I'm now at having 8 ferrets in the house, but at the same time it seems
empty somehow.
 
 Gary & the gang of fur
Timmy's web site=<http://www.concentric.net/~Gferret/>; He's the ferret
totally healed from "terminal lymphoma" without drugs.:)
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[Posted in FML issue 2167]