Today little Mis Shel left this world to go to a better , more peaceful place. She will feel better now and since she has crossed the bridge she can be with all the other friends that she has known and lost through the years. I am sooo sad that I lost her, but I am happy for her at the same time Mis Shel has been sick for awhile. She had a bleeding ulcer, kidneys that were failing, adrenal disease, lymphosarcoma and to top everything we think she was somewhere between 8 1/2 and nine years old. She was a little shelter ferret and no one knew for sure. Her top weight was one pound seven ounces, when she died she weighed less than a pound. It has been very hard watching her these last few of weeks, it was not like Shel. She was always a burst of energy. And the last few weeks she was very lethargic(and so thin). When I first got Mis Shel, the shelter operator just gave her to me if I would take her. I was told that no matter what was done, no one could stop Mis Shel from biting. And she bite very hard. Mis Shel never bite me, the first time I saw her I held her up to give me kisses and she licked me, it was always like that , the whole 2 1/2 years that I had her. I was told that she had been in one shelter after another since she was nine weeks old. No one wanted her. When I got her she was dying, she had a bleeding ulcer. She was so stressed that the vet was afraid to operate. The whole time I had Mis Shel she stressed very easily. For five months I hand fed her, gave her medicine three times a day. I came home at lunch time and gave her some medicine. I hand fed her. I kept her in a cage by herself. I let her decide when she was ready to be with the other ferrets, she in her own way told me. I have to admit that she was very happy after that. She became our alpha ferret. We buried her in the yard close to the trees and with the new flowers that are just coming in. I wanted her buried in God's earth, she was one of God's creatures. My friend tried to talk to me about having her cremated, but that did not seem right for her. I buried her with her favorite sleep sack(I can always get new ones). Goodbye my little one, I hope you have peace and true happiness now. I will always love you and will never forget you. Love to you from your human mom [Posted in FML issue 3356]