-----Original Message-----
From: Lyons, Larry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 10:00 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Very rough weekend.
At least there was no pain, it was fast and peaceful at least.
larry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sandy Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 9:35 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: Very rough weekend.
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>
> I'm sorry Larry,
>
> having just gone through something similar with my dog, I can
> very much sympathize. You did the most humane thing.
>
> Sandy
>
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> From: Lyons, Larry
>
> As you all know, I have several ferrets as pets. As of
> Friday night, I had one less. Our oldest ferret, Possum - so
> named because when we first got her, her marking were very
> similar to that animal's, died Friday night. She had been
> with us almost 6 years. Starting Thursday she suddenly began
> acting very lethargic. This is from a ferret who typically
> was very active, even for a ferret. I took her to the vet on
> Friday, and they kept her at the clinic. On examination the
> vet felt a small mass in her abdomen. Initially we had
> scheduled an exploratory surgery Saturday morning. Possum
> continued to decline, so the vet decided to move the surgery
> up to Friday (a heck of a way to spend a Friday). After the
> surgery started, he called me up with the bad news, Possum
> had lymphoma (a form of cancer), and it had spread throughout
> her intestines. There was nothing that could be done. So we
> decided not to let her wake up from the surgery. We'll be
> picking up her ashes later this week and placing them beside
> the others we've lost over the last year Ryoga and Osmar.
>
> larry
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