I can't believe this is happening again so soon after Buddy. I went to the ferret room to let everyone out and to clean cages and I found Laser at the bottom of the cage, dead! Still warm but dead. I can't even begin to tell you how devastated I am. The biggest shock of all is that Laser wasn't even sick! Or maybe it would be more accurate to say that he wasn't displaying any signs of illness. He was out for play time yesterday and was busy hiding toys with Holly, his cage mate. What did I miss? How could I have missed it? I think I'm getting a little paranoid. Was I giving Buddy so much attention, that I totally missed poor little Laser. I thought I was trying to give every one equal attention. I have never lost a seemingly healthy ferret before. I got Laser in 1998 as a kit from the pet store. He was a sable and was absolutely gorgeous. My partner (at the time, we are no longer together) had a wholesale business and was in our local pet store trying to sell laser pointers as cat toys. I was playing with a baby ferret. As the men were starting to talk money, I jokingly said why not trade the ferret for the pointers. To my total surprise both men said OK. I left the men to work out the finer details and I went to the car, before either one of them had a chance to change his mind. That's how he got his name Laser. Laser loved to hide stuffed toys with cage mate Holly. Holly would take them out of the toy box and hide them under the TV and Laser would find them and put them back into the toy box. It was a real hoot watching them as they crossed paths in the middle of the living room. He is now wrapped in part of the orange fleece that Buddy went in, and will be taken to the vet tomorrow for cremation. Sandee could I ask you once again to make sure Laser meets up with the rather large business that has gone before him. Just to remind you they are, Moxy. Baby, Mitzy, Sandy, Beaseley, Bear, Toby, Murphy, Daisy, Heidi.Casey. Smokey and Bandit and of course Buddy. Please tell him my heart is broken and tell him how very sorry I am if I missed something. I really didn't prepare him for the Bridge. I hope he is not frightened. It's been 9 hours since I found him. I can't stop crying and I can't sleep! Missing 15"Little Angels" @ the Bridge Sally St. Germain and her 5"Little Saints" Hi.....my name is Sally.....I am a ferret-a-holic!!!!! [Posted in FML issue 4789]