YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS!! I got a call from a lady who said she had seen a ferret under her husbands car; she went to get some food for it but when she came back it had disappeared. She and her husband searched for it without success. After advising putting food, water and a blanket in a cat carrier near where it was last seen, I said I would try and find a rescue nearer to her home for when she found the ferret. I rang her back that night and asked if it had been found to which the answer was Yes and No! Her husband had set off in the car to go to Le Mans car race in France (oh no I thought its been run over) and when he arrived at the campsite in France where he was staying who should pop out from under the car - yes the little ferret!!! I shuddered at the thought of everything that could have happened to her (shes a female) during that hundreds of miles under a travelling car and a number of stops on the way! The owners of the campsite had a cage of sorts and she was given some food BUT now what to do with her? She had entered the country illegally (!) without the required pet passport and mandatory vaccinations/microchipping so couldnt be handed in to a vets and no rescue was within hundreds of miles and they would probably also have a problem with an alien ferret! But that little ferret obviously had a guardian angel looking over her because I have a lovely friend who lives in France (nowhere near Le Mans however!) and has 6 rescue ferrets. After many emails, texts, anxious mobile calls well into the night and next morning, my friend and the lovely man who had the ferret agreed to meet up that day to hand her over - a journey of 100s of kms for both of them. Mercedes Destiny (her new name) has landed on her little four paws as she now has a loving home with a wonderful animal-loving family and six male ferrets! A very happy ending thanks to some great people who cared so much about a little ferret.
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 08:03:05 +0000