There's more to the story of Gus, Bill's ferret who was lost and found in Massachusetts in mid-September. This all happened right before I left for vacation, and this is the first chance I've had to sit down and write up the story. (Bill posted about Gus soon after it happened.) Gus was lost when he decided to go exploring, and left a van traveling from Framingham to Acton. When he reached Acton and discovered Gus was missing, Bill put up fliers along the entire route (about 15 miles), as well as alerting the animal control officers in each town he had passed through. Someone spotted an unfamiliar animal in their garage one night. When they looked it up on the internet, they saw that it was a ferret. Fortunately, this person had also seen one of Bill's fliers, and she called Bill. So, now that Bill knew the area where Gus was, he set up a cage with food etc. in the person's garage. Bill also went out looking for Gus every morning. Amazingly, the town Gus was lost in has a law against putting up fliers, so Bill had to take his fliers down soon after the person called! The area where Gus was lost was heavily wooded. Although there were plenty of places for Gus to hide, there were also plenty of predators. I also went searching with Bill one day and we looked EVERYWHERE. Bill called and called and used a squeaky toy, but no luck. It wasn't looking good. Gus had been lost several days. At this point, I called Kim Fox (I had talked with Kim before and thought she was a very good animal communicator). Kim talked with Gus, who said he was confused and getting tired. Though he knew Bill was looking for him, Gus had not heard Bill calling or the squeaky toy. This meant that Gus was no longer where he had first been spotted, which was discouraging. I told Kim that at this point, Gus' only hope was to find a person who would help him. So Kim asked Gus to go to where there were "lights that didn't move"--a house (not moving lights, which would be a car; it was at night). Just as important, Kim asked her angels to guide Gus to a person who would help him. Early the next morning as I was leaving for vacation, I got a call from Bill who had just picked up Gus! Gus had gone to someone's house the night I had talked to Kim, and the person had called the police to report a found ferret. Since Bill had given his name to the animal control officer in the town, this story had a happy ending! A number of things fell into place to reunite Bill with Gus, and I think all of them are very important when trying to find a lost ferret: Bill put up fliers EVERYWHERE along his route, as well as leaving his name and number with the animal control officers. He also went door to door and left fliers at people's houses and talked with people once he knew where Gus was (Gus was found about 1/2 mile from where he was originally spotted). I always recommend talking with a communicator when an animal is lost. When I talked with Kim, she gave Gus very specific instructions and she also asked that he be guided to someone who would help him. Everything fell into place, even though Gus was lost almost a week. Gus is one lucky ferret! So, that's the rest of the story. Many thanks to Kim for the very important role she played in reuniting Gus with Bill! Ronnie DiComo [Posted in FML issue 4324]