First of all we hope all of you have a happy & healthy new year! Second again we much say thank you so much to all of you who chose our ferrets on the giving tree and sent packages! We mailed thank yous to those that had return addresses on them, but some did not- so I want to make sure everyone knows how very grateful we are that our rescued ferrets had their best Christmas ever!!!! And sadly we are now down to 17 ferrets, one of the oldest -Harley - nearly 7, adrenal babies gave up the good fight 2 days ago - We syringe fed him for a couple of days, my teenage daughter changed her plans to make sure she could be here every moment monitoring him too. He was named Harley the owners said because - when he had fur!- he looked like he was wearing motorcycle chaps - they surrendered 4 ferrets last month- and 3 are adrenal & had been bald for over a year with no medical treatment! People irritate me to no end...... Anyway along with harley we recently had Maggie the hedgehog with malignant cancer and Walnut the rat who was just old and lived a good life - all go to the rainbow bridge in the last couple of weeks- it doesn't matter how many critters are here, every single one of them is a precious life that we mourn when it's gone- We will miss them all- Take care , Beth www.crittercamp.biz [Posted in FML 5472]