Tonight in my home lies a 10 week old kit. Bought by a young couple yesterday. She should be in her new home dooking and dancing, and exploring everything, but she is not. She is lying in a cage after being malled by a dog, and I don't know if she will ever be what a ferret should be, or if she will even have a life. She was introduced to the couple's dog. The dog picked her up by the head and shook her and threw her across the room. A Dalmation. A dog they claim has been with the ferrets they had before, with no problem. What may I ask is wrong with people's heads. Don't they know a new introduction into a home smells differant? That a 10 week old baby doesn't know enough to be afraid of anything ( not that any ferret is ever afraid of much). Frusrtration here very heavy today. That maybe this new ferret was a challange to the dogs, comfort and home, intruding on the territory? I don't blame the dog, the people are totaly at fault. This is one time I am delighted to be a Rescue. I at least have a say as to this baby's fate. Tomorrow I am taking this kit into the vet, to be checked. Her horizon seems to be lost right now. Head head of course is cocked to one side, and she has actualy literaly flipped over uncontrolably, while trying to stand, which she can't do. She has had bowel movements, and has an appitite. She has been given a small dose of pred. twice today. Well not know til tomorrow just how bad off she is. She did try to get to the litter box, of course the moment I wasn't looking. She seems to be a bit more THERE tonight. I am asking for prayers for this little girl. She is gonna need them, and so am I as the descision as to her fate now lays with me. As far as dogs and ferrets, always remember, a dog is a dog and they have certain things in their nature, that seem to be tamed, but never truely are. Take the instance of the dog that was 14 years old. The people trusted that dog for those 14 years, to do as it was told. One day the dog didn't do what it was expected to do and ended up dead in the road. An animal, is still an animal, and no matter how hard you try, instincts can never truely, be breed out of that animal. So my thought on the posts lately, about dogs and ferrets is, I would always be aware that there is a chance the worst thing that can happen, WILL. A dog is a dog, a ferret is a ferret, a hooman, well there's just no excuse for most of them. REANEE GLADDEN [Posted in FML issue 5099]