Another star is sparkling in the sky tonight because Scooter, one of the world's finest ferret ambassadors was helped over the Rainbow Bridge today. He was truly a people person, I mean ferret, and the kindest, most gentle little sweetheart that you could ever imagine. When he came to live with us a few years ago, we introduced him to a few of our other crew and he stood back, gasped, and with the most shocked look on his face screemed, "WHAT ON EARTH IS THAT?!?!?!?" We could never get him used to other ferrets no matter how hard we tried, and he never wanted to. He was a loner as far as ferrets were concerned and strickly a people ferret. Loved to be with people. Scooter was 7 yr. old and had been sick with many things, including an enlarged spleen (so large we were afraid it was going to burst) and Lymphosarcoma. He had been sick for several months. We almost lost him a few months ago and remarkably, he pulled through, although not completely. Living on duck soup alone for several weeks made him well (along with medications of course), to a point. His spleen never did shrink but he perked up, put on some weight, and began to climb again. He took a turn for the worse and was visibly in pain and very uncomfortable. In a day or so we will know exactly what his problem was. Scooter, my beautiful baby, we love you so and miss you so much already. Goodbye sweety. Say "hi" to Buddy, Josie, Sadie, Snoopy, Sarah, Bear, Dyna, Willie, Toby, Chelsea and Josie's 2 babies that didn't make it past days one and 2. We still miss them too. Some day we will all be together again. Tryntje Miller. [Posted in FML issue 2734]