Hi all, my wife and I have been taking in rescues for some time. The young ones are can be placed in good homes, but the oldsters stay with us and want for nothing in our care. But this year the 7-9 yrs have one by one erned there angel wings. Smokey, a sweat dark eyed white boy left us early in the year. This guy was a cuddeler and loved to be held. Cocoa, a chocolate girl came to us through a friend at work. We had her for about two years. She was always a sweatheart who got along with all the others. Spooky, an albino from the Utah rescue in 2001. A fun loving boy that played hard and got into many shinanigans. Romeo, a loner that had health problems for the year we had him. We took him in for the last shot because he had megaesophigus (sp). Ann, an old girl that didn't put up with the goofyness of the other ferrets, but loved to be held by her hoomans. Ann was Cocoa's cagemate. Luigi, who we lost Monday night had a growing mass in his tummy. Even though I was hand feeding him, he grew thin and hairless. Too old for surgery we loved this sweat old man until his body couldn't go any more. I hand fed all of these kids through the last days of their lives as we gave them love and supportive care. As each one left us our hearts kept breaking and somehow we would tape our hearts back together, hug the other fuzzies and continue on. My hat is off to you wonderful shelter operaters. Duane Duane & Linda Watts and the fuzzies Dozier, Taz, Suger, Holly, Sparky, Skeeter, Scooter, Blaze, Chance, Sarah, Gidget, Sandi, Raven, Jasmin, Daisy, Bennie, Rascal, Ginger, Sophie, And Sabrina (our Dog) Missing:Cocoa, Ann, Bandit, Mindy, Mandy, Smokey, Romeo, Spooky, Luigi, and Podo [Posted in FML issue 4573]