My vet removed the stitch from Muis’s foot last week and she was a very brave little girl when it was being done – hardly caused a ruckus.

Well, she couldn’t have, since I had her pinned to my chest so that she wouldn’t jerk her foot while Fiona picked the stitch to remove it :)

It was all done within seconds and we were home in record time, which was good as I had woken her up to take her to the vet and you know ferrets … they usually use the litter tray when they wake up (except when you want them to use the litter tray) and I didn’t want Muis soiling Fiona’s bench top ;-)

I wonder how long it’ll be before the hair on her foot grows back because she’s still bald as a coot on her stomach!

So, I have all the ferrets on their daily dose of Poly-MVA and, quite honestly, can’t say that it’s doing anything apart from making their poop STINK!

The smell is absolutely awful and if they accidentally poop on the floor and I don’t pick it up immediately, it sets like concrete and then I have a devil of a time trying to remove it. Yuck!

I do hope that the supplement is helping them all and now that I’ve started them all on it, I’m too frightened to not use it in case it really is helping Muis with her tumour!

When I first got the Poly-MVA, I thought I would put the exactly amount into a syringe and give it to each of them that way. Silly idea – very silly. They all thrashed about like demented worms when I held them and I was terrified that I would accidentally squirt the liquid into their lungs.

So I decided to put 0.5ml of Poly-MVA into their daily smoothy and I give Muis a small saucer full of Whiskas pet milk with her other 0.5ml added to it at night. She seems to love it so she gets her full dose, as do the others.

As I mentioned earlier, Fiona gave Muis 12-18 months when she diagnosed her insulinoma so IF she lasts longer than that and her quality of life is good, then I reckon I could put that down to the Poly-MVA and TCM.

When CJ developed insulinoma all those years ago, it was roughly a year from the time he was diagnosed to the time I had to take him on his final journey to the vet and his quality of life was rotten. He didn’t do anything but sleep all day and he went from being my gorgeous weasel wardancer to a very sad, sleepy little fellow. It was heartbreaking to watch :-(

But in those days the only thing I could find to help him was colloidal silver so we used to drive down to Fremantle, about an hour away, to get a bottle and I used to put it in the water dish for the ferrets. That’s all there was in the way of natural remedies in those days!

I am so grateful that, with the help of the internet, we have a chance of improving our sick ferrets’ lives … or at least FEEL like we’re improving their lives. Who knows if what I’m doing will work or not.

While on the subject of past ferrets, I can’t believe that today is the first anniversary of Kaos’s passing. How time flies. I still miss the old girl, as she was such a character and so much fun.

I think I need to get another DEW to add to the family, as well as a sable, so must practice my eyelash batting at Philip to see if he’ll allow me to increase my ferret numbers.

I was reading the latest WAFFS magazine and apparently for the first time in ages, they have quite a few ferrets looking to be rehomed and no one on their list wanting ferrets, all thanks to this global meltdown.

There was a story (thankfully with a happy ending) about someone who’d moved out of a rental property and left his dog and ferret in the house – just like that! And it’s not just here – I’ve read some really sad stories about that sort of thing happening in the States and also in the UK.

People who have such little regard about their responsibilities should not be allowed to have pets in the first place but that’s something which is impossible to police, isn’t it.

Hrumph!

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