Hi gang-- After being diagnosed with lymphosarcoma 8 months ago, Rocky finally gave up the battle at 1:15 pm today Sunday, July 2nd. :( About 9 months ago, I saw that his right eye appeared to be swollen so I took him to the vet. The first diagnosis was a simple eye infection. Well, the swelling didn't go away and after a couple of weeks it was to the point where he couldn't close his eyelids. We then set him up for an appointment at an eye specialist. After a few days of waiting for the results, it turned out that this was a malignant tumor in his head. There wasn't much we could do since it was near his brain. He still ate and drank fine and acted as his usual self. I lubricated his eyes a couple of times a day since the tumor started pushing on his other eye. Friday night, I noticed that he was lethargic and he was really weak. We force fed him until I decided not to this morning. When I got him out of his cage this morning, he was breathing, but he had no responses whatsoever. I lubricated his eyes and he didn't budge. I even stuck his favorite Red Clover (he hates that stuff) in front of his nose and he didn't budge. I decided not to feed him but to let him go in peace. I placed him in his favorite ferret sleeping bag and laid him on the living room sofa. I let my son (now three) say good-bye to him and what really took me was when he said "Bye-bye Rocky, you go see Junior now". In case you don't know, Rocky is the "famous" ferret of Ferret World-- which used to be ferretworld.com. I say famous because of the photo of him typing on the keyboard and looking directly at the monitor. This picture really made it look as though he was typing something on the computer. What made this photo great was the fact that it was not a pose. He was probably trying to get up on the computer desk by grabbing hold of the keyboard and my wife had just happened to snap a picture at that moment. Rocky was almost 7 and is survived by my very first ferret, Shelly, my second ferret, Sassy, Bear (a rescue), and Spunky, my youngest. Goodbye Rock [Posted in FML issue 3101]