Hi Kim

>This is a waste of so much life left to live in a very sweet ferret.
>It was not his time and the hurt and anger over this are tremendous.

I'm catching up with my FML's and saw your post about Richie. When you
took him in, you wrote about him having bloody stools... Did you ever
take him to the vets to find out what it was? Maybe a vet could have
saved his life.

>Thanks to being dumped off after being with his people for his entire
>life of 4 years, Richie just couldn't understand what he did to
>deserve this, refused to accept it and opted to not go on.

I'm not sure about ferrets feeling emotions, thinking and contemplating
like people do, at least not to the extent you describe. I've had quite
a few rescues come in, some came from bad homes, others from good
homes. None became sick because they left their home. Ferrets are
usually excited about new surroundings and people. I think he was very
sick, maybe his owners knew and didn't want any vet bills and gave the
ferrets up instead.

Ulrike

[Posted in FML 5507]