Oh, sweet little Lady. She was such a shy ferret. Apparently she was too shy to ask any of the other ferrets at the ferret shelter to play. The only friend she seemed to love was Mike, one of the owners. When I left Emma and Llyr there to play while I was away on a trip, they made friends with her! I had told the owners that I was looking for another since Luna had passed away, so they suggested her. I wasn't really excited about it when I first saw her, she was pretty standard looking and I was kind of *Meh* but I trusted them... I'm so happy I could care for her. She was a wonderful little friend and really touched my heart. She stayed shy the whole time I had her but at least she learned that it was okay to ask to play and she LOVED to cuddle. If my boyfriend was laying down somewhere she could reach she would crawl into his shirt and go to sleep... She loved to kiss his nose and forehead in the sweetest fashion too. She also developed a crush on my boy ferret, Llyr. He didn't seem to take too much notice though, he was too in love with himself, but she would find him and cuddle with him too. She liked playing with Emma because Emma would be very gentile with her. Lady would get self-conscious easily and when her feelings were hurt, or when she felt shy, she would bounce away from you and hide, like a pouting hide. She really wanted you to come after her and nudge her to play or cuddle again. Sometimes it would take a few attempts before she felt welcome again.

She had a very cute snaggle tooth: One of her k-9's was broken shorter. She was a little pudgy and soft around the gut, not fat, just comfortably made ;) She wasn't very bright either but, that wasn't a flaw in the least, she was just sweet little Lady. I don't think they knew where she had come from at the shelter. I believe I remember them telling me someone had found her lost and wandering around outside.

Lady got very ill with insulanoma and was dying for about a year. It was one of the toughest things I've ever gone through. She was truly one of the sweetest creatures on earth- I mean, she was a ferret and she didn't seem to have an evil thought in her head! All she wanted to do was love and it was breaking my heart to see her in such pain. She encouraged me to look after my own health because mine had started to fail as well. It was scary because all our symptoms, the way we acted and seemed to have been feeling, were so identical. When I saw Lady passed out in a Hypoglycemic coma really knew I needed to take my own hypoglycemia more seriously. During the last few months I was spoon feeding her baby food about every three hours. If I waited longer she would go into a death like state and I would have to rub a sugary substance (ferretvite) on her gums and in her mouth to help bring her out of it. I actually didn't know if she was dead or not when it would happen, she would have been though if I hadn't remembered that people sometimes do that for diabetics. It was terrifying. I got very little sleep. I mostly just rested at night and took brief naps in her room during the day. I took her to the vet on St. Patrick's Day to have her put to sleep. It was a very tough choice for me, as it should be, but she had lost her will to eat so I knew it was time. At this point she was no longer able to use her legs and I had been placing food and water into her mouth with a syringe; but now she was making no effort at all to swallow. She had a strong will to live and I didn't want to make the choice for her, but after 3 days without getting any real food down and just letting the water dribble out, I decided it might just be better if I could hold her while she went to sleep.