I have not had much contact with Calgary today, have had a problem getting in touch with the woman who is supposed to pick up the MoneyGram and pass that on to Monica to cover White Fang's surgery. Perhaps she has just been very busy today. This evening I left a message on her machine authorizing her to give the funds to Monica of the ferret club in Calgary. Monica will pay White Fang's bill and pick her up and care for her until she is over the surgery, then I think we will transfer her to Kelleen until she can be picked up by one of Eydie's contacts and brought to her shelter in NM. White Fang is spending the night at the vet's tonight so they can make sure that she is eating before releasing her. I have not heard from Jonathan today either so I will assume that there are no problems with the arrangements that Monica has worked out with him. Many have expressed a desire to adopt this little one. As I said in the last FML, her health is our first concern, we will only do what we feel is best for her. This is one reason why she will stay in Calgary with Monica for a while before traveling. Our second concern will be assessing her personality and ability to get along with humans, other pets, and other ferrets. Then, believe me, we will be bery selective in where this little one goes. She is our little miracle, gang, we can all be proud. For now, we pretty much have little White Fang's travel itinerary planned. We only seem to lack transportation from the border of Canada to Moscow, Idaho. Can anyone help us with this leg of her journey? It will probably be a couple of weeks from now, to allow plenty of recovery time for her, first. Now that she has had the surgery, there is less urgency in this situation. If you can help, please contact her travel agent Eydie Fox at e-mail [log in to unmask] Interesting thing happening, I had one or two e-mails on the first day that I posted that I wanted to help this little one, that said they had gone ahead and put a check in the mail. Then as the days passsed, I had a few more actually e-mail me that they HAD mailed their checks, well, not a single one has arrived yet. I get periodic donations and there are no problems, so why have I not received these? I wonder if I should contact the Post Office on Monday, that is unless there are alot today. If you have not yet sent your check, please do so, we need funds badly, to reimburse the kind person who loaned me the money to wire up there so White Fang's surgery would not be put off any longer. On another note... Festus went to the vet again today, he had gone last Thursday and was put on Amoxicillin and we were giving hairball medicine in greater doses also. There has only been more decline in his condition. So back to the vet today, and this time the vet felt a "hard cylindrical lump" that was not there Thursday. I HAVE to build him up over the weekend and he will have surgery Monday or Tuesday to get this thing out. Doc says that it is too hard to be something other than a foreign object. How do these kids find these things? We are all so careful...<scream>.....<sigh> Festus is now hardly touching the duck soup, so guess we are back to force feeding him. He is the most hard-headed ferret I have yet to meet. He sniffs the soup, which has to have just the right ingredients, be carefully warmed, with two squirts of Ferretone on the top, and served in a small crock dish...anyway, he sniffs, he might take one lick, then he turns his head away wrinkles his nose and puts it in the air, sticks his tongue out and smacks a couple of times then dives under the nearest t-shirt or towel that is in his kennel and hides his head. Anyone care to interpret THAT little move? He used to just wrinkle his nose and make a face, then gobble it up, at least half of it. I KNOW he likes it, but now he won't even take it. So, I guess I will be up with him several times tonight force feeding him. Sleep is only a distant memory to me of late. But these guys are worth it. I just need to buy stock in a Coffee company.....and the ones manufacturing the ingredients to the duck soup. (It is getting scary, I am almost acquiring a taste for that stuff myself...well, I said "almost".) Keep your fingers crossed for little Festus...he only weighed 1.3 pounds today. On the e-mail... if anyone has sent something that I have not responded to, please resend it. Mail has slowed down and I think it is because I have been so affraid of losing something that I have left the "new mail" in the "in" box, and I am wondering if my "in" box is full. How will I know if it is full? How many e-mails can AOL hold? If overloaded, does it dump the newest mail or the oldest? You computer experts out there, please help me here, thanks. Guess that is all that I know. If anyone could figure out how to get "sleep" into a little pill that I could take, I would greatly appreciate it. Give all your fuzzies a special hug and tell them the story of our little miracle, White Fang. Trish [Posted in FML issue 1545]