It’s amazing but Kimiko reminds me so much of Fidget, my first silvermitt.

Take a look at these photos …

First is of Fidget on the flowerpot …

and this is Kimiko, sprawled on the kitchen floor …

Both are big girls and have very pronounced markings – dark legs and tails and an almost identical mask on their faces, although Fidget’s face was a big squarer than Kimiko’s. So different from Kahlua, my last silvermitt, who was a very petite girl and whose markings were quite faint.

To be honest, there is no update!

I have been scouring the internet hoping to find the necropsy results but to no avail The only news article I’ve found which has new information is on The Pointe’s website.

What I never knew was that someone was trying to rescue the ferret from the family before this tragedy happened – and they didn’t succeed! DRATS!

Okay, here are more points about that incident where the poor ferret was accused of eating 7 fingers off a baby as reported by The Pointe.

What we already know is that the mother claims she fell asleep next to the baby in the sitting room. She said she woke up “when she heard the child screaming and saw the ferret next to her bloodied son”. The father ran into the room, picked up the ferret and threw it across the room, killing it.

Have you all read the news reports about this? Have you scratched your head and wondered how on earth a ferret COULD have done that, like I did?

I’m sorry but something doesn’t smell right here and the people reporting this don’t seem to care about ferreting (pun intended) out the facts!

Tell me – where were the parents when all this was happening? Why on earth did they leave their baby unattended and let their ferret roam around the house. Was the ferret starving? No way a well looked-after ferret would eat any fingers otherwise.

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How fortunate was this little otter pup? A family was walking their dogs near Rigg, a village in southwest Scotland, heard the little pup crying in distress. They didn’t do anything at first, I guess thinking that the mother might be nearby and if they interfered, it might make things worse.

They continued their walk and when they returned past the same spot and heard the little one still crying, they got in touch with Scottish SPCA who came and collected the pup.

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