A ferrety update

I feel a bit more positive today, I had a long soak last night and a good cry...I think one of the things I was finding hard is that I can still feel the echo of Iggy taking his last breath snuggled up on my shoulder and the thought of going through this again with Goose at some point got a bit too close and a bit too real...
So today is a new day, taking one day at a time. As @Hemlock so rightly said thankfully animals live in the moment, so that's right where I need to be.

 

Goose's update. At the mo he seems to be doing ok, eating well and playing. He's still on antacids but no other meds. His digestion isn't great still though. I've been doing loads of research on suitable probiotics for ferrets, the one the vet recommended I was never quite happy with, sure its upset his tum more, so i stopped it.(fortiflora for cats). I found one that looked as good as I was going to find, 'Proviable DC' but you can only get it in America!! Ferret gut flora is quite different to cats but ferret specific anything is hard to come by...(yes I've been trawling the internet for days!)
Anyhow, I've found one here that hopefully will be a bit better, at least with no unwanted ingredients in. So as it stands with the boy, we're still taking each day as it comes, another pee test before xmas and possibly a blood test in January, all to keep an eye on his kidney function. And in the meantime I'll just continue to try and keep him as healthy
as possible.
Now for some pics! Goose's belly fur is growing back at last! And I thought I'd add a silly pic of Iggy

 

Ferrets are very flexible, part fluid I reckon! I think some people call them cat snakes.They are quite wonderful creatures really and illness apart I think Goose is doing ok without his brother. He's staying out more and chilling ,which is lovely. Before if he was in my daughter's room he'd obsess about the door being shut, now he's just happy to hang out or snooze close to her in his donut bed. (Best buy ever that bed!)

 

This is an example of their happy noise, it's called 'dooking'... It's a bit like chuckling I suppose, Iggy used to do a bit of nervous dook when Sid was around! Thought it easier to show you rather than try and explain... these aren't mine btw, just found them on youtube.