Please excause my spilling and Flamers HOLD thy toungs.. About Tiny Tim ( Timmy ) In May of 2006 I recived a phone call from my vet that their sister vet called them and they recived a ferret that had been attack by a dog, his back was broken and he was paralized, Timmy owners brought him in to have him put down, he was only 8 months old at the time, That vet thought maybe my vet could help him and do the drs agreed to take him in, the first vet had the owners sign the papers and they happyly left thinking well thats out of the way we dont have to deal with that baby ferret, Timmy was transferd to my vet with they inturn called me and So i went and got him I started to work with him doing therapy with him to thinking i could fix him and hed be able to walk again, the next 6 months was ruff on Timmy he traveled all over the state of Arkansas made many new friends, he went to several different doctors even to a vet specelist, with all the drs that Timmy went to it has come down to Timmy having a spinal cord defect he would never be able to walk agin. the first few months timmy was in my shelter he would only want to be held like a baby, he wouldnt ever play hardly, he would just drag around with him his favoriet crocha egg that he loved to much cause it rattled, he loves them eggs so i make sure he is never without one cause its his way of getting my attaition when he wants somthing, i felt he didnt have a life he wasnt happy he wanted nonthing to do with any other ferret nonthing at all just picked up and carried around, and i had started thinking about sending him to the Rainbow Bridge but i was a no kill shelter so i had to do somthing for this little one, this went on til Oct of 2006 when i got another called from my vet another vet called them that they got in a paralized ferret that was found tide to a bike post at a park with twine like to would use for a bale of hay would take her in, so i went and got her, you could see the marks on her back and side there her hair had came off from the twine and she had scares of the twine, but she had more spunk in her and she was very indapendent she didnt want held she wasnted to play and was always on the go, she would by pass with Timmy watching her all the time her dragging her legs like Timmy did. he would just set there and watch her pla with the others and finaly get his egg and drag off with it and come find me or just go under the dresser to go to sleep. it was getting worse with timmy and i was getting to where i couldnt handle seeing him like this, Barb his God Momma down the state from us would take him for a few weeks at a time and he just loved being carried around all the time and cuddled, that was something he relly liked. After christmas one day Timmy was watching Angel and 2 other paralized ferrets haveing a time of their lives playing , by that time i had 4 paralized kids, thay would always try to play with Timmy but you could just hang that up til one day Angel went up to him and started picking on him trying to play with him and she took his egg, thats what took the iceing off the cake my egg shes got my egg so he started crawling off to chase her down he was slow at it but he was going after it cause thats his darn egg and he wanted it back. from then on Timmy and Angel have bonded and are very close where ever one is the other is right there close, Angel has tought Timmy to evenclimb a cage 2 legged as well. Thats how Angel how her name, she came in to Timmys life and made him into a play 2 legged ferret just like her and their other 2 sisters Emily and Grasshopper. Yesterday August 16th of 2009 I was cleaning up after the paralized kids poop while they were out playing I have always been very careful around them as to not to step on them or anything. but yesterday liked to have killed me, I was cleaning up after them so they wouldnt crawl back into it so i leaned ober the play pin and pick it up instead of just opening it up and doing it the other way and the play pin when it moved cought Timmys tail and i didnt know it, timmy didnt scream or anything cause he has no feeling in his back part of his body, we was having a yard sale and i wanted to hurry up and get back out there, a few mins later Katy one of my foster parents came in to use the bathroom and she noticed blood all over and she screamed for me and i ran in and i couldnt say anything i just grabed Timmy with his tail hanging and blood dripping everywhere, wraped him up in a towl and another ferret foster friend drove me and timmy to our vet knowing i was going to lose timmy, buy the time we got there the towl and my clothes was soaked and i didnt know a ferret can have so much blood, the play pin had snaped his tail in half and the dr rushed him into surgey, told me to go home and thay they would call me later that day, a couple hours later they call and tell me that Timmy is ready to come home i thought What the He** andf they said she had to take his whole tail and i just cryed, but the dr said look at it this way he woill be able to stay alot cleaner down there and maybe no more butt hole infections and bladder infections cause he keeps having them from not being so clean down there even when i cleaned him hed be dirty within mins,, I brought Timmy home and put him in a hospital cage so he could sleep off the sleeping meds they gave him, he had refused tokiss me oir left me give him kisses he would puch me away and the other 2 foster parents would laught at him and me cause he was mad at me but i would cry cause i thought maybe Timmy thought i hurt him on perpos or somthing, well putting him in a hospital cage all by himself was another upsetting thing cause Timmy was so so sad and upset he refused to eat his duck soup or drink or anything he wouldnt even look at me, when i called another close ferret shelter firend of mind she said Sue you put Timmy back in that cage with Angel now and she told me why, BUT the drs says he needs to be by himself for a few days and so i went on ahead and put timmy back with his Angel and she even hadnt been eating or drinked her duck soup at all too. she was worried and upset over Timmy not being with her, when i put Timmy back in the FN Cage with Angel i cryed for the both of them cause they were so so happy to be back togather and after a couple of butt sniffing from angel she layed ring over hom and started grooming him and then they both crawled over and started eating their duck soups, then crawled togather and went to sleep, i sat there any watched them two togather and how so bonded they are that if one did ever go to the Rainbowe Bridge the other would so follow cause of them being so close for 3 yrs now, its hard keeping them apart, I just hope and pray this never happens again i know it was an accident and accident happene but i also no more so to never ever lean over a play pin to clean or pick up somthing expecaly if you have a ferret that isparalized and has no feeling to be able to scream or squal or somthing to let you know somethings wrong and Timmy diffeently didnt have is rattle egg with him like he always does crap he stop dragging that egg around alot a couple years ago though he still has his egg to get my attation sometimes.. Lesson Learned.,.. [Posted in FML 6428]