Hi everybody, Things are crazy. We've just got 5 more ferrets yesterday. I think people are cleaning out pets along with their spring cleaning. Scruffy I just picked up yesterday morning at my vets office. He was found in the parking lot. Poor kid. I knew I was looking at an albino from the pink eyes, but the poor kid was literally covered in grease. He looked like a pure black ferret. I got him home and gave him quite the bath. And yep it indeed was white under all that mess. He's going to be a gorgeous kid too. He's not up for adoption yet though. I'm going to put an ad in our paper to see if he belonged to someone. It's sad though. He was covered in scratches from one end to the other too. I almost wonder if was up in a car and thats where he got covered in grease and cuts. Luckily none look to be infected or very deep. He's obviously been out awhile too. I think he's one big ferret, but he has all this extra skin that I would bet was filled out with muscle and fat not to long ago. After his bath he ate an amazing amount of food, drank a lot of water and then proceeded to dance like mad around me, ending with him standing on two legs in front of me, just begging to be held. The love gave me lots and lots of kisses. He's just a big hunk. Four more ferrets were dropped off later today too, 2 one year olds and 2 six month olds. All soo pretty and sweet. I can't imagine someone would buy four gorgeous ferrets, an amazingly huge cage and an absolute load of toys only to give them all up within a year. Well, I'm sure these great kids are going to make someone a very proud parent. Pics of them should be up by the time you get this, hopefully. Geocities is behaving badly at the moment. Update on Big Bear-This kid has just been through everything. He lost alot of weight recently from diarrehia, brought him in to the vets nothing could be found wrong. So we've been ducksouping and treating the diarrehia and he's steadily gaining weight back. Now he's going in on Sunday to have his neuter finished. He was supposed to of been neutered and descented by the vet who had turned him into me. Low and behold though we found a testicle, so thats going to be removed. He also is going to have his scent glands checked, since though he was descented, he still poofed at one of my ferts. If they are not mangled he'll keep those, otherwise off with those too. To top it off....We thought it was urine burn when he first came to us. He had missing hair around his penis and down his legs and lots of sweling and redness. Though that was indeed part of the problem and all his hair is back now and no more redness, it looks like the swelling was from a broken penis. Can you believe this? So Big Bear is going in Sunday for a full rear end check. No wonder he's been a bit stressed. So everyone think of the big guy on Sunday and send him your best wishes. All in all though, all these things are fixable, or at least not a terminal problem by any means. Best wishes to all and their fuzzy friends. My all the sick ferts get well and all the ferrets gone past may they play and romp happily on Rainbow Bridge until you are returned to them. Dooks to all, Kristine, Bear, Syvia, Moby and Sid Friends Of Fuzzies Ferret Shelter Bend, OR http://www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/Farm/2057 [Posted in FML issue 2628]