On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 17:26:30 +0100, "Ophelia" >
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>"Gary" > wrote in message ...
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>>> I think you are doing the right thing! You will know if and you are
>>> ready.
>>> May I ask, why does your daughter get ferrets and they try to dump them
>>> on
>>> you??
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>> Daughter has never kept ferrets to the end. She has no idea how it
>> feels to love one then watch them go downhill for many months and then
>> die in your arms one night...or at a vet to get euthenized. I've had 4
>> of them and they all died right in my bedroom and 3 of them right in
>> my arms when the final moment came. The 4th one died after I left for
>> a few minutes. Ever be right there as a loved one dies? It haunts you
>> forever.
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>Yes. I know that very well.
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>> Her first two, I adopted years ago when she moved out. Now that she's
>> married she is adopting rescues and she has 6 of them now. Still
>> though...she's never experienced a loved one go downhill then die.
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>> Of her 6 now, one of them always fights with the other ferrets but
>> gets along fine by herself with a human. She seems to think I have a
>> need and this one would be perfect probably. She's said a few times,
>> let me just bring it for a visit.
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>> Well...I know me. Bring one for a visit and I'll melt. But right now,
>> I don't want another so I tell her NOT to bring it for a visit.
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>I am pleased to hear that. You need to heal after losing your wee one.
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>> It's a dilemma for me too. I don't want one right now and maybe not
>> for several years until I retire. But by then this one will be dead
>> and not lived the happier life that she could have lived with me. How
>> do you deal with this? There are always plenty of needy rescues of any
>> species. I just don't want to hear about them for a bit.
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>> sigh ;-0
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>You can't deal with it by taking every ferret you worry about. If I did
>that I would have a houseful of rescue dogs. I wonder if that is what
>happened to the woman who had my Poppy. I told you about all the dogs she
>had. I am sure she took them for good reasons but look what happened! Do
>what you can, when you feel you can!

That is why I never enter the SPCA My cats found me without that.
Did a fund raiser for a local shelter, a no kill shelter, and
involving all the bridge club, raised nearly three thousand bucks, two
car loads of old towels but asked the man to meet me outside. He was
insisting I come in and look around and I told him why I could not do
that lol

Reminds me, the catnip is growing nicely, I must start knitting mice
that I stuff with catnip and sell at Xmas to make a few bucks for the
shelter.