October 99

09.10.99

A man came with his wife and son to adopt the 2 castrated hobs. He was looking for 2 pet ferrets and wanted to get 2 hobs and have them castrated and he also wanted to re-home some unwanted ferrets so he phoned me to see if I had 1 or 2 hobs. As it happened I still had the 2 polecat hobs who had already been re-homed and brought back last month and he was very happy with them so he adopted them.

23.10.99

A man came today to adopt a ferret, he chose one of the 3 jills that I still have. He is getting another jill from another person. He liked the ferrets and looked happy with them and played with them but I just feel awful right now. I feel like I gave one of my ferrets away, I wish I could have re-homed all 3 jills together.

I don't know whether I'll continue rescuing and re-homing ferrets, I may just rescue stray ferrets now. I just can't do it anymore, it's such a emotional strain... I just feel like crying and I still have 2 more jills to give away... You do get attached to the ferrets when you've had them 3 months and it is sooo hard to give them away. I feel like I can't really take in unwanted ferrets anymore because it's such a great responsibility to find them good homes. What if I re-home one or more ferrets to a person who I think will give them a good home but then the person won't be good to them and e.g. keep them locked up in a cage all the time, not give them enough and clean bedding, not play with them so the ferrets end up lonely and miserable? I couldn't live with myself if I did that to one of the ferrets I re-home...

28.10.99

I re-homed the last 2 jills. The last of the 9 rescues that came back in July. Saying this was hard is an understatement. A lady phoned about the 2 jills so I thought that's a good sign and she wanted 2 ferrets for pets so I brought the jills to her and Lorna came as well. Her partner used to have ferrets and the lady was so happy with the 2 jills and let them have a run in the lounge and we had a good talk and I had a fact sheet for them as well and brought a bag of food and told them all the important stuff and went on and on about neutering. So this home is definitely good and they said they'd phone me and tell me how the jills are getting on. They only live about 20 miles away. But even though it was a good home, it was still hard re-homing the girls as I've had them for so long.