I am so worried about Cass, the lady in Bendigo who has all those ferrets – waking up this morning and reading about the horrors in Victoria and NSW was bad enough, but to know someone who lives in that particular area was awful.

Apparently 50 homes were lost in Bendigo. I have never been there so have no concept what the town is like, nor do I have any idea of where exactly Cass and her family live.

I am just hoping and praying that her house was out of the line of fire and that, despite the storms raging around them, they are okay, as are all their animals. I think she still had about 35 ferrets on her property when we last talked by email, and I have no idea if she was on a farm or in the town itself.

I just can not imagine the horrors of being in a bushfire, of seeing your house go up in flames and worrying about whether your animals are okay or if they were burned. It gives me the absolute jimjams thinking about it.

And then there are all the animals living in the bush … how do they escape the flames and if they get burned, can they be helped so that they don’t die an agonising death? God – it’s so depressing to think about.

I have never been happy living in the bush, being more of a coastal person. Give me a view of the sea and I find it a salve on the soul … so relaxing and very therapeutic.

Here we live about 10 minutes from the Indian Ocean and while we can’t see it from our house, you can almost smell it when the sea breeze blows :-)

Years ago we used to take the ferrets down to the beach early on a Sunday morning and it always amused me to see them digging deep tunnels in the sand! I’d worry about them going too far in and finding the sand collapsing behind them so always had their harnesses on so we could pull them out if that happened! Thankfully it never did.

Speaking of ferrets, Muis is looking terrific these days. She’s still 1.1kg and her fur is fabulously soft, plus her tail – which looked pretty ratty – has filled out too and is also looking good.

She always had coarse fur, ever since she was young, and since being on the Poly-MVA, it’s turned lovely and silky, as have the others. Seamus also had coarse fur and now his is soft, so it must be the stuff I’m giving them.

I was “talking”to another ferret lady who also got Poly-MVA for her gang and she agreed that their poop smelled awful but thought it was because their systems were expelling all the grot. Hopefully once they’ve been cleansed through, their poop will go back to normal.

Now to melatonin …. has anyone put their ferret on melatonin and if they have, could you please let me know how your ferret went on that drug? The ferret lady above thinks one of her girls has adrenal problems and she doesn’t have a ferret knowledgeable vet nearby, so has to “teach” her vet things.

If you could give me any advice to pass on to her, I would be most grateful as she is dreadfully worried about her ferret and only wants to do the best for it.

I’ve given her links to various sites which talk about melatonin but it’s always good to have firsthand information from someone who’s actually given it to their ferret and who can give good advice about that.

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