I had a high school friend who had ferrets. When there were large groups of people at her house, we used to put them in our pants, which was the custom at the time.
That's great! Thanks for the update. Is she expected to fuller recover now? I assumed to already spoke to your doctor about it, but I looked it up online and it said she'd still be contagious for up to six months. Do you have other ferrets?
I took her to the vet, who said she was very dehydrated and thus gave her a big saline injection, and gave me a protein rich food to help her gain weight in addition to some antibiotic drops
My car broke down this afternoon, and I spent hours sitting on the side of the road in Texas heat with no AC. I missed work and have a who-knows-how-big repair bill staring at me now. Funtimes.
So I'm pretty positive my kitty Snowball has cancer. She's got some lumps on her neck and she's been sick for the past few months... I was thinking it might just be her lymph nodes swelling up since she was sick, but now there's another lump a little above a smaller one. Seeing as I don't have the money it would take to remove the cancer and my parents don't like her near enough to dish out the cash either... I'm thinking at the end of summer when it's time to give her back to the parents, I'm just gonna put her to sleep. I'm not looking forward to it
Actually, abscesses are where bodily fluids and blood build up under the skin, I believe. Cats are particularly vulnerable I think because their skin is so loose, so they can get really nasty abscesses. Mostly they come from wounds, but they don't have to be open. I think it's probably worth at least a vet visit to get a diagnosis before resorting to euthanasia.
I've had two cats with them. One near her tail, and she had a hard time sitting down, was all lethargic and sad. The other on her chin, freaked me out when I came home from a long weekend in which I abandoned her with much food. Poor thing.
But these things are time sensitive. They're usually tied to an event which you may not have witnessed - a fight, a hunt, a barbed wire fence?
She's been sick for a few months at this point, and she's been living in my apartment as an indoor cat for a couple weeks. She used to have just two bumps on her neck, but now she has a third lump in the same area. I'll take her to the vet on Tuesday but I still figure it's cancer. Who knows! Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised!
So I've just started this new internship position. I'll spare you the details, but I've been here only about two weeks now. One of the other interns I have simply fallen for. She's smart, she's funny, she's cute. She comes from a similar spiritual background as myself and holds strong Christian faith and steady morals. She's got this sort of nerd queen vibe going on: she's into history, museums, Tokyo, and other nerdy things. We have a lot of things in common, with just enough discrepancies to keep things interesting. She's basically everything I've been looking for in a woman. She wants to see Toy Story 3, so I was trying to work up the courage to ask her out this weekend (which is something I haven't done in four years! I have no courage when it comes to the ladies.)
It came up in casual conversation today that she has a boyfriend. *Crushing Despair!*
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Thanks for putting that in perspective, now I can feel like I'm unaccomplished for the rest of my day.
But, really, to make ya feel even worse, how much of that time has been spent on the internet?
Eh well at least I met you guys. The internet hasn't been a complete waste.
Oh, whoops.
But these things are time sensitive. They're usually tied to an event which you may not have witnessed - a fight, a hunt, a barbed wire fence?
It came up in casual conversation today that she has a boyfriend.
*Crushing Despair!*