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I heard a most bizarre story last night when out with some friends. It is so bizarre that for a sick reason, I thought I would share it with you all :)

A couple friend used to have ferrets as pets. The word “ferret” is comedic itself, let alone the strange looking animal. I am sure already the fact that this couple were in charge of ferrets says something about them.

Well, their last ferret had the misfortune to get cancer (which I hear is common for a ferret). This ferret fell out of where it was sleeping, and hit its back on a podium that it played on.

This caused a paralysis from the mid point of the creature down to its back legs. All poor Mr. Ferret could do was crawl, dragging itself around with its front paws. There was also a bad side effect. The bladder and intestines are in that lower half which wasn’t working at all. This is where the title of this entry comes into play: Juicing the Ferret.

Juicin’ is the phrase that our friends used to try to bring humour into a painful, and gross situation. They had to find the ferrets bladder and push out the urine. And, of course, it got worse. I don’t need to spell that out. Oh, what we do for our pets!

So now, if I am having a bad day I can think back, and be happy that I don’t have to juice anything, or anyone.

Dion

ps. The ferret got better again, and was pulling through the cancer, until “an accident in the home” made it all for nought :/