I know. I saw your subject heading, and saw Roxie's comment before it, and literally my heart sank. Maybe if you stay online 24 hours a day and refresh my journal every minute or so this won't happen again.
Nothing strange about a constrictor, if we lived in Argentina or the marshes of Detroit. "Get along" is a relative term. Kitten Mitten plays with Duncan, whereas grumpy old Alsatia barely tolerates him. But eat, never. They're too large to be proper prey but not large enough to be a cat, so most felines aren't sure what to make of them. Dogs on the other hand would probably attack, esp a rat terrier.
It might have taken several more hours. Ferrets sleep about 20 hours a day, so to go for long expanses of time without seeing them is not at all unusual. Longer would have been much, much worse. We've lost ferrets before (my fault every time, I'm ashamed to say) -- one ended up at Denver Dumb Friends League where we retrieved him, another was discovered by the paper delivery lady who took him home until we contacted her (can't remember how we found out she had him). We're fortunate in that our ferrets are very sweet and socialized, so there's no confusing them for wild animals -- except Duncan.
Yep. Sometimes it's only temporary until lab work comes back, sometimes stupid owners bring them in for treatment but refuse to pay for lab work or other diagnostics. You have to write SOMETHING in there!
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Date: 2007-10-01 11:45 pm (UTC)Nothing strange about a constrictor, if we lived in Argentina or the marshes of Detroit. "Get along" is a relative term. Kitten Mitten plays with Duncan, whereas grumpy old Alsatia barely tolerates him. But eat, never. They're too large to be proper prey but not large enough to be a cat, so most felines aren't sure what to make of them. Dogs on the other hand would probably attack, esp a rat terrier.
It might have taken several more hours. Ferrets sleep about 20 hours a day, so to go for long expanses of time without seeing them is not at all unusual. Longer would have been much, much worse. We've lost ferrets before (my fault every time, I'm ashamed to say) -- one ended up at Denver Dumb Friends League where we retrieved him, another was discovered by the paper delivery lady who took him home until we contacted her (can't remember how we found out she had him). We're fortunate in that our ferrets are very sweet and socialized, so there's no confusing them for wild animals -- except Duncan.
Yep. Sometimes it's only temporary until lab work comes back, sometimes stupid owners bring them in for treatment but refuse to pay for lab work or other diagnostics. You have to write SOMETHING in there!