>My vet takes one look, goes back and does x-rays.  X-rays come back with
>lung capacity down to 5% fluid in abdominal cavity and lungs, and tumor
>in the lungs.  The heart rate was up 3x normal and Snowflake had to use
>her entire body to breath...and breathe and breathe.  Each breath was
>uncomfortable.  We tried to remove the fluids with a needle.  Nothing.
>She bit the vet, crawled into my arms and died right there.  I rally
>f***ing hate people.  The kid said that she had been breathing like that
>for a year.  As quickly as a little snowflake came into my life, she
>melted away.  Rest in peace baby, you deserve it.  You deserved so much
>better that what those crappy people did to you.
 
Gail.  I can only say that for every decent person there are dozens that
suck.  I have worked with animals most of my life and i am still not
hardened to what some people do.  I will never , and you won't either ,
understand how someone could show up with a ferret in a fishtank who had
been"breathing like that for a year".  I could not lie down at night in
my comfy bed and really like myself if i had a ferret in the other room
living in a fishtank, with a 2 inch tumor on her face and "breathing like
that"... neither could you.  neither could anyone on this list.  But
there at more than enough people who can..
 
so when rescuers and shelters bicker remember what and who it is all
for.it is for the SNOWFLAKES out there.  ... I still can't get with
that"zoo " lady though.
 
Christine and the weasel ward
 
[Posted in FML issue 4003]