..life lesson from the least expected source

I posted this in my ferret's blog a couple months back.... and when posting my ferrets Xmas pictures this morning I ran across this entry again...

For someone who does not do weepy clingy well I bawled my eyes off on the morning that this happened and again I teared up just thinking about it... it may seem like one of the dumbest things .. but it made me cry ... have any of you ever cried over some dumb shiat? this it broke my heart a little bit though and it make me just CRY... then I dried my tears and realized that I had learned yet another lesson...

 

This is the story.... every.single.time I give my ferrets a treat ... oh and my boys (6 ferrets) and girls (2 ferrets) LOVE treats ... my dwarf ferret Chiquitita would diligently take her first treat and walk it up the stairs into the cage to the uppermost compartment and gingerly place it in between the folds of a blanket that is layered up there and folded in four ... between the two top layers and the bottom layers she had build up a sta**** is a ritual I have watched her doing this for the past months or so .... I know the stash is there and I do not touch nor remove it when cleaning ... she knows where her stuff is and she goes and gets it when she is ready....

 

This morning as I was giving them their treats Chiqui kept jumping and grabbing my hand as if wanting to tell me something .... she wrapped her front legs tight around my hand and pulled my hand in the direction of the bottom part of the cage with the open door that leads into the compartmentalized cage ... she wrapped and pulled ... so I looked in the direction of the cage as she wanted me to do and she then runs up to the uppermost compartment and shrieks and looks at me and shrieks ... I am noticing a bump in the blanket ... WHERE SLINKY my slick ferret FOUND HER STASH AND ATE IT ALL ... CHIQUI LOOKED AT ME WITH HAUNTED EYES THAT HAD A QUESTION MARK THAT SAID WHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYY????????? AND HER EYES WERE SHINING AND THIS here OLD FOOL THAT I AM STARTED CRYING ... BECAUSE IT MADE ME FEEL SO BAD THAT SHE HAD WORKED SO HARD TO BUILD UP HER STASH AND HERE CAME SLINKY AND ATE IT ALL ... JUST LIKE THAT ....

 

I held Chiquitita... she loves that ... and I petted her ... and gave her another treat ... and here she went again to the door and up the stairs and all the way up the the uppermost compartment of the cage and I watched her gingerly hide her treat this time on the opposite end of the blanket... and I thought to myself ... here you are tearing up like a jackass and Chiquitita has it all figured out ... she counted her losses ... shrieked for a moment and got right back to building another stash ...this time probably a better and bigger one.... LESSON LEARNED from a dwarf ferret....

My beautiful dwarf ferret Chiquitita...

Chiquitita up to hide her stash...
 
Chiquitita and her sister Petunia this Christmas morning .... 
  
we had an awesome brunch ... I picked up all the wrappings and cleaned ... the ferrets are asleep... DH is watching a game ... the grown kids got the groggies and went to their quarters and I am picking up my palette and my canvas lying flat on the floor and relaxing painting the rest of this peaceful day....

I love love love my furry kritters ... 8 beautiful ferrets that are part of my family and so loved...
  

 

Wow. Marta. That made me want to cry too. That poor little ferret must have been devastated to see her stash gone after so much hard work. But like Chiquitita sometimes we just have to get back on our feet and start over.

Can you imagine? ... I am glad I was not the only one who was moved to tears by this ... my best online friend and others did the same when I shared it ... getting up and not staying down is all that matters ... thanks for allowing me to share...