Saigon
05-11-2008, 12:38 AM
:depressed Oh how my heart is breaking.
Yesterday, my ferret Mask died.
We let him out to run around the downstairs in the afternoons. So he can get exercise and play with the cats. He loves to run up to them and tackle them!!
He must have been tired, and instead of going back to his hammock in his cage (we leave it open and he climbs in and out at will) he pulled my DD's blanket off of the sofa and dragged it to the wall and curled up in it. (He loved to burrow!!)
DB was in a rush to get to work and came running down that stairs. I was upstairs lying down with horrible cramps.
All of a sudden I hear this high pitched squeal followed by another one. No idea what it was, so I call out and DB says....he stepped on the blanket.
He rushes upstairs with Mask in his hands and Mask just looks up at me with such sad eyes. he is shaking until I pick him up and cuddle him. wear he just gets quiet and starts shallow breathing. I am bawling. So DB grabs his keys and calls the vet. I wrap Mask in a blanket and DB rushes off to the vets office.
30 minutes later I get the news, he was just too fragile. DB had stepped on him with his combat boots :sadeyes He didn't make it.
He had such a hard little life. My friend Nate got him from a ferret rescue mission. Where he and his brother Snow had been abandoned. Nate took care of them and when he went TDY or on Leave I would play with them and take them to their appointments and feed them. Last summer, Snow was diagnosed with Adrenal disease, common for ferrets, In October, Nate decided to put Snow to sleep as he had wasted to nothing and barely ever played or ate. Mask was crushed and grew a bit depressed. Then a couple weeks later Nate left for a month and Mask got even more down. I got a call from his vet while Nate was gone saying that Mask's last tests showed him to have adrenal disease. So I took him in for surgery and he had his adrenal gland removed. I stayed at Nate's while he recovered. Feeding him duck soup every couple of hours, tending to his incision site, playing with him and bathing him and clipping his nails.
Nate got orders a few months ago, and decided he didn't want to put Mask through an 18 hour drive. So he asked me to adopt him. I was ecstatic! I set up his own room and got him new toys and all sorts of things. He was doing really well, he was more active he was happy and playing. A couple weeks ago I noticed hair loss on his tail. A sure sign the adrenal disease was back. Sure enough it was. I started Melatonin in hopes it would clear it up and he was doing much better. He was happy and bouncy. The vet said he would have a hard time this time around since he was down to one gland and he couldn't have it removed.
And then this. To die like that!! I couldn't go to the vet with DB I knew it was bad. I knew I would break down if I watched him die. But now I feel so horrible. He was all alone.:( with just DB... Im such a horrible fur mommy!!!!!
Its just now hitting me, DB feels horrible and I know it was an accident. But I just want to cry!!!
Am I completely crazy????
Yesterday, my ferret Mask died.
We let him out to run around the downstairs in the afternoons. So he can get exercise and play with the cats. He loves to run up to them and tackle them!!
He must have been tired, and instead of going back to his hammock in his cage (we leave it open and he climbs in and out at will) he pulled my DD's blanket off of the sofa and dragged it to the wall and curled up in it. (He loved to burrow!!)
DB was in a rush to get to work and came running down that stairs. I was upstairs lying down with horrible cramps.
All of a sudden I hear this high pitched squeal followed by another one. No idea what it was, so I call out and DB says....he stepped on the blanket.
He rushes upstairs with Mask in his hands and Mask just looks up at me with such sad eyes. he is shaking until I pick him up and cuddle him. wear he just gets quiet and starts shallow breathing. I am bawling. So DB grabs his keys and calls the vet. I wrap Mask in a blanket and DB rushes off to the vets office.
30 minutes later I get the news, he was just too fragile. DB had stepped on him with his combat boots :sadeyes He didn't make it.
He had such a hard little life. My friend Nate got him from a ferret rescue mission. Where he and his brother Snow had been abandoned. Nate took care of them and when he went TDY or on Leave I would play with them and take them to their appointments and feed them. Last summer, Snow was diagnosed with Adrenal disease, common for ferrets, In October, Nate decided to put Snow to sleep as he had wasted to nothing and barely ever played or ate. Mask was crushed and grew a bit depressed. Then a couple weeks later Nate left for a month and Mask got even more down. I got a call from his vet while Nate was gone saying that Mask's last tests showed him to have adrenal disease. So I took him in for surgery and he had his adrenal gland removed. I stayed at Nate's while he recovered. Feeding him duck soup every couple of hours, tending to his incision site, playing with him and bathing him and clipping his nails.
Nate got orders a few months ago, and decided he didn't want to put Mask through an 18 hour drive. So he asked me to adopt him. I was ecstatic! I set up his own room and got him new toys and all sorts of things. He was doing really well, he was more active he was happy and playing. A couple weeks ago I noticed hair loss on his tail. A sure sign the adrenal disease was back. Sure enough it was. I started Melatonin in hopes it would clear it up and he was doing much better. He was happy and bouncy. The vet said he would have a hard time this time around since he was down to one gland and he couldn't have it removed.
And then this. To die like that!! I couldn't go to the vet with DB I knew it was bad. I knew I would break down if I watched him die. But now I feel so horrible. He was all alone.:( with just DB... Im such a horrible fur mommy!!!!!
Its just now hitting me, DB feels horrible and I know it was an accident. But I just want to cry!!!
Am I completely crazy????