Originally Posted by Rhonda
I don't remember the reason but Missy started losing all her fur. She was bald by the time she died. Sara had her to the vet several times and couldn't do anything for her. Yeah it was sad.
At one time when we lived in the country and my kids (in their 30's now)
were in jr high we had 15 dogs ( a shepherd had 10 pups) and 6 cats - 5 birds(9 cockatiels and parakeets in a 6 ft aviary) and 80 rabbits (with all the babies)
We inherited the rabbits from my inlaws when mom had her fourth stroke and Dad found her on the floor of the garage where she was feeding the rabbits so he packed up all the runs and brought it all kit and kaboodle down to us.
My boys learned how to shoot when it was time to dress some. Some were pets and we handled a lot and some were not that friendly.
Let me tell you rabbits are not as defenseless as you might think!!
We had one that a weasel got in her cage and she stomped him through the screen wire!!! and they can bite!!!
We had several silver martins and they have silver and black fur. They are really!! pretty. Usually pretty friendly too. We had one that would mother anything you gave her no matter how many babies! Sometimes a mother would reject the babies for whatever reason and then we had to move them to a surrogate mother. We had several that would accept other babies easily. It was fun most of the time.
Ah that was along time ago! in the 80s and now we live in small quarters. We remodeled my dad's auto shop into an apartment for DH and I so I am not allowed to bring home any new pets!! I was supposed to only have 1 dog. We got a beagle then my son asked if I would housebreak a German short haired pointer because she was tearing up their house. I took her at 4 mos and then he didn't want her back so 5 yrs later here she is!! and then the doctor thought the grandkids were allergic to the cat so we inherited the cat! 7 years ago.
We got my DH a cockatiel so now I am definately forbidden any more pets!!!! They all like to tell me when to get up and when to go to bed and if I am out of the room for long they will start barking or screaming(the cockatiel Miss Snick(short for snickers)
We had one that kept escaping so matter what we did! We called him Houdini.
I've heard that ferrets often lose their hair, I think it usually has to do with adrenal disease, which a lot of ferrets get when they get older. We're not sure how old Chester is, since a friend of ours found him, and I'm starting to worry he might be older than we first thought. My fiance shaved all of them because we don't have AC and I read somewhere that they really shouldn't get above 80 degrees. The other 2 have started to grow their hair back pretty well, but Chester's just isn't growing back nearly as fast, and the part that is growing back is in patches.. it's not growing back everywhere. :( I'm going 'home' (my mom's house) tomorrow, and I'm taking him with me... gonna see how he reacts to the cat.