My Sydney quietly slipped away to the Rainbow Bridge. He had been going downhill for a while but still ate his soup with great eagerness until yesterday. He was one of my insulinoma kids. I've had him for 3 years and never knew his age when I got him as a rescue with 2 other ferrets, Sweet Pea and Carmine. I have mentioned him before telling of how I could smell the cage from across the street and at the end of the driveway when I got out of the truck. He and his cagemates lived in a small camping trailer in a park. Two people also lived in the camper, a man and his girlfriend. The owner of the park, the young man's father, had told the couple to get rid of the "stinking ferrets". All he had to do was clean them and they wouldn't have been so stinking!. Sydney was a large male that was floppy with a large belly. He was a sweet, sweet cinnamon guy. His two cagemates were Sweet Pea who only lived 2 weeks before leaving unexpectedly for the Bridge and Carmine who also has insulinoma. They had joined a larger group of ferrets but Carmine seems lost tonight even with the company of 5 others including monster man Tyki and the newest one, little Treasure. Treasure has lost her "grandpa". The only one that put up with her shenanagins without pinning her to the floor and telling her to behave. She loved to cuddle with him at naptime. I placed Sydney's body into a warm winter cap and left him in the cage for the rest of his family to see him one last time. Little Treasure pushed on him over and over again with her tiny paws trying to get him to wake up. She then laid her head on his body. She misses him. So do I. Nancy and her 16, missing sweet Syd [Posted in FML 6745]