From:
Russell Prater
Date: 2002-04-01 22:22:00 UTC
Subject: Re: over eating and **dead** sleep
xzaviarsbaby wrote:
> Tonight, he was sleeping, and I picked him up to hold him, as I
> usually do when they sleep, and he was warm, heartbeat felt
> normal, but he wouldn't wake up, didn't stretch, just layed limp.
> Even after stroking and shaking he layed limp. After a few minutes
> we got a response out of him and he woke up. Is it possible that he
> was just in a **dead** sleep??
It is perfectly normal. It's what a lot of us call "Dead ferret
syndrome". Sooner or later it happens to nearly every one who has
ferrets. When we had our first little girl 20 yrs ago, my wife came
running into the bedroom crying "Wake up, Stinky is DEAD." Well, she
wasn't dead and in a couple of minutes she woke up and looked at us like
"What is going on?"
--
Russ, Booger, Bonnie & Clyde
Panama City, FL
russellprater@w...