Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2017 18:41:36 GMT -5
My two gorgeous babies passed away a few months ago and I still burst into tears every time I think about them. I just miss them so much, I wish I could see them again. Nothing could cheer me up after a crappy day like they could. They were so sweet, I still can't believe this happened to them.
I adopted them, two brothers, at two years old. Their previous owner never let them out of the cage and so I wanted to give them the best lil ferret lives I possible to make up for lost time. They didn't even know that they could jump when I first adopted them because I suppose they'd never had a chance to practice. They always looked so happy to see me in the mornings, ready to come out of the cage and start their play time with some manic war dancing and hand wrestling. My heart breaks every morning that I get up and there's no one to greet me.
They passed while I was at work, I wish I could have been there to save them. It was a really hot day but inside the apartment was always cool because one pro of living in a shoe box sized place is that air con is very effective. Since it was going to be a hot day I put some extra dishes with water in their cage and popped in some frozen chicken necks but I foolishly was mainly relying on the air conditioning since my boyfriend was supposed to be home all day so if there was a power outage or something happened to the air con he'd be able to intervene. I regret this decision every single day since it happened. Why didn't I take more precautions? While I was at work my boyfriend ended up going out for a few hours and forgot to leave the air con on for them. By the time he returned the apartment had heated up significantly. They were showing signs of heat stroke which I'd warned him that ferrets are very susceptible to, unable to contact me and not knowing what else to do he tried to cool them down as quickly as possible, not knowing that their temperature needs to be slowly reduced in order to avoid them going into shock. From the symptoms he described it sounds like they did go into shock and there was nothing he could do. I can't believe I didn't at least give him a basic run down on ferret first aid since I knew he would have to babysit them at times. I'm so stupid, so so stupid. I adopted them because I thought I'd be able to give them wonderful lives where they're allowed to be part of the family but I was only able to give them that for just under a year before their lives were cut so short, I can't believe I let something so horrible happen to my babies.
I really just don't know what to do or how to move on, I miss them so much, I'd give anything to see their sweet little faces and hold them again
I'm so sorry my precious bubbas, I hope you're somewhere beautiful
I adopted them, two brothers, at two years old. Their previous owner never let them out of the cage and so I wanted to give them the best lil ferret lives I possible to make up for lost time. They didn't even know that they could jump when I first adopted them because I suppose they'd never had a chance to practice. They always looked so happy to see me in the mornings, ready to come out of the cage and start their play time with some manic war dancing and hand wrestling. My heart breaks every morning that I get up and there's no one to greet me.
They passed while I was at work, I wish I could have been there to save them. It was a really hot day but inside the apartment was always cool because one pro of living in a shoe box sized place is that air con is very effective. Since it was going to be a hot day I put some extra dishes with water in their cage and popped in some frozen chicken necks but I foolishly was mainly relying on the air conditioning since my boyfriend was supposed to be home all day so if there was a power outage or something happened to the air con he'd be able to intervene. I regret this decision every single day since it happened. Why didn't I take more precautions? While I was at work my boyfriend ended up going out for a few hours and forgot to leave the air con on for them. By the time he returned the apartment had heated up significantly. They were showing signs of heat stroke which I'd warned him that ferrets are very susceptible to, unable to contact me and not knowing what else to do he tried to cool them down as quickly as possible, not knowing that their temperature needs to be slowly reduced in order to avoid them going into shock. From the symptoms he described it sounds like they did go into shock and there was nothing he could do. I can't believe I didn't at least give him a basic run down on ferret first aid since I knew he would have to babysit them at times. I'm so stupid, so so stupid. I adopted them because I thought I'd be able to give them wonderful lives where they're allowed to be part of the family but I was only able to give them that for just under a year before their lives were cut so short, I can't believe I let something so horrible happen to my babies.
I really just don't know what to do or how to move on, I miss them so much, I'd give anything to see their sweet little faces and hold them again
I'm so sorry my precious bubbas, I hope you're somewhere beautiful