From:
sukie crandall
Date: 2005-05-27 00:30:38 UTC
Subject: update on 8 month old Bandit from Susan Hayes
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-id: <201A3FDC-AC72-4F6A-86F2-20535DEAD1E9@optonline.net>
Susie Hayes asked me during this hard time to forward this to the FHL
and FML for her. To bring it into compliance with FHL rules the
vet name has been removed from the FHL version.
This is the young ferret who had prolapse trouble, loose stools, and
sudden formation of cataracts among other health problems.
As per FHL rules sympathy messages need to be sent privately to Susan at
Susie_q1995@yahoo.com
>
> to friends and monaters from the group lists im on. can you please
> forward this post about Bandit to my groups i didnt know how to do
> it with all the groups list im on togather. Sukie also please
> forward this to fml list to as i know im not a member of that
> group yet but there alot of friends of mine on there i know and was
> at St Louis when we all was there.. Thanks Susan
> this is so very hard for me to write this so please bear with me
>
> At 8 45 this morning Dr and I helped Bandit getting to go to
> the rainbow bridge, there he meets all his cousins that we ferret
> mom and dads have lost our love ones to and will be there waiting
> for us when we get to join them at the rainbow bridge. Bandit was
> such a sweetie, he was very brave little boy and he stole
> everyones heart when we was at the St Louise ferret syp. he went
> thru alot for a 8 month old baby ferret. he was one sick little boy
> and he was suffering and in a great deal of pain the last few days
> of his life. he was a rescue back in late Oct of 04 he was sick
> when i got him, he had so many health problems for such a little
> guy. Yesterday the drs told me there was nonthing more they were
> able to do for him except to give him pain meds and make him
> comfertable his little kidneys were the size of golf balls. he had
> polycystic kidney disese and had went from a 3 pound ferret to
> almost skin and bones he was dieing slowy, I brought him home with
> me last night cause he had been at the hospital sence monday but i
> got him home and i held him and talked to him and told him all
> about the rainbow bridge and all his cousins would be there to
> greet him and they would play and do his little dookie dances with
> his little noises he made all the time with him, and that i would
> be there someday to join him. he slept with me last night i held
> him most of the night and this morn i gave him some ice cream he
> loved so get into when one of my human kids leave laying around and
> he ate it and his a/d and took his water then off to the hospital
> we went,, my son before i left with Bandit gave me a paper to
> read i took it but didnt read it til it was over with
> and i baried him out at my parents ranch at the family pet cematary
> then i broke down and relly cryed. this is what the note said ,,
> When I go to the rainbow bridge mommy remember our love will
> continue in sprit and in our hearts, tell we meet again i will
> watch you from above here at the rainbow bridge gate then we can
> go on to enternaty me doing my dookie dances and you smiling at me
> remember mommy im healthy happy and free now so dont you cry cause
> im still here with you just in spirt is all ,, My son told me later
> this is what Bandit told him to tell me so he wrote it after he
> held him last night for awhile.. I nevr had to put a ferret to
> sleep this is the first time i ever had to cause im a no kill
> shelter so this has relly took a toll on me as I had to put my
> first one to sleep and a baby ferret at that.. Susan
>
> S&L Ferret Shelter of Northwest Ark