Putting my heart out there once again...

but it's ok. I am becoming so attached to Sammy... she's the eldest of the ferrets we got this past weekend. She's also the one who had cancer. As I mentioned before she's very small and I don't know if that has anything to do with her previously being sick. Luckily, the people who gave her to us said that she was doing fine (health-wise) right now - she tends to sleep a lot.

When I let them all out to play the other two take off running and sneaking and playing together... and Sammy just walks around investigating the environment, mostly. Sometimes if she finds something that catches her interest she'll play for a minute... last night she found a ball with a bell in it and pushed it around with her nose for a while; she also likes to climb up on the couch in hopes of getting to the end table or just to play in the blankets. She still has a little skip in her step, though - don't get me wrong. She doesn't tend to play much with the other ferrets unless one of them harass her into it, though.

Speaking of harassing her, Static (her housemate from her previous owners) harasses her endlessly. The previous owners said that they played together a lot, but I don't know if that's such a good thing. He gets her by the back of her head, (or even her face sometimes), and twists and drags her around. Sometimes she'll make sounds and that's when I've started intervening. I'm not really sure what's considered "normal" for those two (but I think I might ask soon). Luckily, since Stella's so young she can handle Static and his roughhousing and it probably gives li'l Sammy a break. But I do feel bad for her. It seems to take a lot out of her to try to fight him off, (especially with him being about twice her size). Usually, when I "rescue" her she'll let me hold her for a few minutes while she recuperates and sometimes she'll even love on my cheek while I'm doing so.

*sigh* I'm already dreading the day she leaves us, though I have no idea when that might be. I went in Critter's yesterday and they had to put one of their ferrets to sleep because his cancer came back. I, uh... I don't really know where I'm going with this. But I hope she knows she's loved.