Hi Kim >This is a waste of so much life left to live in a very sweet ferret. >It was not his time and the hurt and anger over this are tremendous. I'm catching up with my FML's and saw your post about Richie. When you took him in, you wrote about him having bloody stools... Did you ever take him to the vets to find out what it was? Maybe a vet could have saved his life. >Thanks to being dumped off after being with his people for his entire >life of 4 years, Richie just couldn't understand what he did to >deserve this, refused to accept it and opted to not go on. I'm not sure about ferrets feeling emotions, thinking and contemplating like people do, at least not to the extent you describe. I've had quite a few rescues come in, some came from bad homes, others from good homes. None became sick because they left their home. Ferrets are usually excited about new surroundings and people. I think he was very sick, maybe his owners knew and didn't want any vet bills and gave the ferrets up instead. Ulrike [Posted in FML 5507]