Jasper, a cinnamon/brown colored chocolate, was put to sleep during a surgery that showed he had numerous lymphoma tumors. It did not seem like his time. He wanted to eat, drink, and play still, but the tumors were causing blockages making him unable to eat properly anymore. They were not removable. Jasper loved going into the cage first, making sure everything was in it's place. He would scratch at the floor of the top level until the food and water was cleaned and refilled, and then he would eat, drink, eat, drink, and sleep a little before coming back out to play. He was always making sure everything was "just right". I never saw a ferret more in love with a plush cat bed than he was. He lost one of his sisters, Daphne, last year when she passed away from an adrenal tumor. His surviving brother, Rebel, and surviving sister, Sarah, miss him very much, as well as all the other fuzzies who live here. Then Mishka - a not even 2 years old yet sable, with beautiful white markings on her face and paws. She died suddenly on the floor of the cage from a tumor on her spleen that burst. Another lymphoma. My fiance is utterly devastated, and he took off time from work to deal. She was his little girl. We can't have kids, and he expected her to be here for quite some time. Her brother, Alexi, has been sleeping a lot, but he is getting over it we think. Bill, on the other hand, has been so upset. I told him she knows that he loved her. How could she not? He told her every day, she was his little girl. Mishka was the apprentice toy collector/manager. Anywhere Sid would hide the toys, she would help, or find a new place to put them. She'd always bound out from the middle of nowhere, and jump on you, then quickly go back to wherever it was she came from. She loved eating these cat-food nuggets meant for cleaning teeth. We would find stockpiles of them everywhere she liked to sleep. Two so close to each other really bites, but there's nothing we can do. Such is the life of owning ferrets, I suppose, which is why we try to make sure every day is an awesome day for them. Which I guess is how humans should try to live their lives, too. Laryssa [Posted in FML 6854]