Posted by DedeD on April 3, 2002, at 22:28:38
In reply to 11 ferrets!!! » DedeD, posted by Mair on April 3, 2002, at 21:33:03
> Hi Dee
>
> How did you develop an attraction to ferrets?? Did you inherit this from your Mom or did she just finally capitulate?
>
Well, I moved down here to FL when my dad started to really get sick. He passed away last April. I had 10 ferrets at the time. They were my family and I wasn't giving them up. I got them through shelters that I had done volunteer work at in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. They are all hard to adopt ferrets, blind, deaf, biters, in need of meds, surgical candidates. I have the word sucker stamped on my head. It's in neon. Fortunately mom is an animal lover, too. She even allowed me to get my chihuahua after I moved here. What a pain in the ass HE is, but loveable just the same. The cats are mom's, I can give or take them. The other two dogs were here when I got here (2 labs, lean mean eating machines). It also doesn't help that my sister is the assistant manager of a pet store and I get 40% off AND I get first crack at any ferret returns. I also think that my ferret collection is part of my illness because I was living alone all that time and needed to nurture and be loved. Animal hoarding IS a disease. I just used the excuse that they needed me.
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