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Igor DOES have hypothyroidism!!
The vet called back today, and Iggy’s blood tests came back (WOW that took forever) and revealed he really does have it. Idk what’s the numbers are now, but back in … 2014? I believe? There were SEVEN ferrets diagnosed with hypothyroidism. Seven. 😭
And maybe it’s just under-diagnosed. But it’s almost hard to believe that I had to fight so hard for this… and it’s true, and now he’s got medicine to treat it.
Advocate for your ferrets!
Anyway, I hope he gets better soon!
ID: a roan ferret sleeping on his belly on a bright green snuffle mat. He has a big smile. End ID
Finally got a decent picture of Mortimer!
ID: a picture of a sable ferret lying in a bag covered in mustelid art. He is looking at the viewer with big, dark eyes. End ID
Mustelid bag from Camp Mustelid's shop here
Happy National Ferret Day from my very sleepy business!
ID: four photos, each with a different ferret sleeping. In the first, a white ferret is curled into a ball with one arm outstretched in the "swan pose." In the second picture, a roan ferret sleeps on his back half inside a light blue blanket. The third has a sable ferret curled into another ball, and the last has the upper body of a white ferret poking out of a light blue blanket, arms resting on top the blanket. End ID
here he is... the april fool
Gonna delete that vent post about my vet. Now that I’ve actually finally met with her again I remember how much she really does care and continually learn more about ferrets. The clinic is just so busy right now.
But, long story short, I’m bringing Igor in for a full panel tomorrow to rule out other diseases (because to test for hypothyroidism is too experimental and the hormones needed cost like $4k). Then we can do a trial of the hypothyroidism treatment.
Cross your fingers for us.
A mother's plea: Help us survive and protect my child who was born in war.
My name is Sahar. Like any young woman, I dreamed of a stable and happy life. I was engaged to Mohammad, and together, we dreamed of building a warm little home where we could start our life. We spent years preparing our house, but just before our wedding, everything was destroyed in an instant by the war.
I was faced with a choice: to leave Mohammad in the midst of this chaos or to stand by him and begin our journey together, no matter how difficult it might be. I chose him. We got married, not in the dream wedding I had envisioned, but under the harsh reality of war. Our new home became a fragile tent, offering neither comfort nor security.
After we got married, I received the news that I was pregnant with my daughter, and I live in constant fear for my unborn child. I am terrified of the world she will be born into—a world of poverty, hunger, and bitter cold. We have been displaced from our home more than nine times, carrying with us nothing but the burden of loss and the hope of survival. The house we dreamed of is now rubble, and the tent we live in barely protects us from the rain and cold.How will I protect my daughter? We struggle to find enough food. Basic necessities like milk, blankets, and clothing feel impossibly out of reach. The cost of survival has become unbearable. Every night, I am haunted by the thought: how can I bring her into this world, knowing I cannot keep her safe?
After a long pregnancy filled with pain and fear, after nights without sleep, I finally gave birth to my baby girl. She was born in the middle of bombing, surrounded by destruction and poverty—not in a warm room, not in a safe place. Her first cry mixed with the sound of explosions, as if she was announcing her arrival into a cruel world she never chose.
I gave birth to her with nothing but my heart. I cannot promise her anything. Poverty surrounds us from every side, and the cold reaches her tiny body before night even comes. My baby and I are suffering deeply, not because we ask for much, but because I am unable to provide her with the most basic needs: milk, warmth, and safety.
When I look into her eyes, I feel strength. When I look at my empty hands, I break down in tears. I am a mother trying to save her child from hunger and fear, in a world that has shown no mercy even to the dreams of children.😢🥹
To donate or support us, here is the link 👇🙏
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From the depths of my heart, thank you for your kindness and compassion🥹❤️🙏
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I wonder if smaller animals with faster heartbeats and shorter lifespans perceive time as moving a LOT slower than we do. Like, a minute too is much longer to them.
Said because my ferrets are always super impatient and they climb up my jeans as I get their food ready and by the time I set it down they’ve already gotten sick of waiting and have left lol
ID: video of a white ferret eating raw soup out of a red bowl, sitting almost like a person would. He stops often to lick his lips. Sounds: slurping.
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We have recently found out that my eldest ferret, Beethoven, is terminally ill. His brother, Tc… Tessa Yelton needs your support for Find Tc
For anyone who doesn't know, my ferret Beethoven has lung cancer. As bad as the Nationwide ferret insurance is, it should cover my vet bills for him. However, ferret mental health isn't exactly in Nationwide's mind, and I'm really worried about how Tchaikovsky will react to losing his brother. This is my first time dealing with this, but the advice is to find a new sibling for the surviving ferret.
As of right now, we're looking for a ferret who needs a home in North Florida or South Georgia. It takes at least two weeks to introduce a new ferret into the home, and Beethoven may not have two weeks left, so we want to find someone quickly. If no rescues are available, we may buy a ferret from the local exotic pet store. Petco isn't an acceptable choice.
I'm a few hundred dollars from my credit card limit. Even if they're being rehomed, ferrets usually cost about $200-300. If they come without a cage, we'll have to buy something for the transition period, which is more than I can afford. We may also end up taking two ferrets if that's who needs a home (though I'm afraid of them making a clique that excludes Tchaikovsky). So, I've set the goal at $400. If there are more donations than I need, the money will go towards vet appointments for the new ferret and/or paying off my credit card so I can afford to buy more stuff for the ferrets.
Update: Beethoven is slowing down. He's sleeping on my bed and allowing cuddles more than usual. A combination of the cancer and the steroids is making him horribly skinny. But he's still actively searching out food, water, and his favorite places to sleep.
The exotic pet store doesn't have any ferrets at the moment, but is supposed to get one soon. I've messaged several people on Craigslist, but the only person who responded so far is asking $600, which is a lot.
It's very frustrating because there are plenty of ferrets I'm interested in, but I'm not getting anything. Even if they had ferrets I could meet, the pet store is a last resort.
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ID: a roan ferret stands on a fluffy white rug beside a white pillow, looks up at the viewer, and sticks his tongue out.
A Night That Took Our Shelter Away😭😭 Please help us rebuild safety.🥹🙏
We need urgently 600$ to buy new tent and blankets to my kids 🙏🥹
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Last night, our fragile tent was destroyed.It was the only roof protecting my children from the cold, the rain, and the fear that never leaves Gaza.I am a mother of three young children, and I am pregnant.After war took our home and everything we owned, the tent was all we had left. Now even that is gone. ❤️🩹💔
My children are sleeping without proper shelter.😭
They are cold. They are scared I am asking for your help — with humanity and hope.🙏😭
I am a pregnant mother responsible for three kids, and our situation is extremely bad. We urgently need $600 to buy a new tent, blankets, and basic protection so my children can sleep safely again. Any amount matters. Even $1 can make a difference.If you cannot donate, please share this post so it can reach someone who can.
🔗 Donation link Chuffed: ❤️🩹❤️🩹
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Thank you for seeing us.Thank you for caring.Thank you for helping a mother protect her children. Please reblog. Please share. Please help us survive.🤍
Hey the US government is proposing to get rid of the Endangered Species Act. Please go comment.
(yes this entirely for corporate profit)
Cut and paste the docket number to put in your response if you remember. You can comment anonymously if you want.
The Oregon Zoo has some sample arguments you can make.
We have until December 22nd!
I don't usually add on to stuff like this, but this is really really important to me.
Since OP didn't explain what's actually changing (lots of things) here's a simple explanation of one of the Big Ones.
One of the biggest changes is a proposal to remove the ESA’s Threatened Species Blanket Rule (FWS-HQ-ES-2025-0029). The Blanket Rule is extremely important because it automatically extends the same protections given to endangered species to all newly listed threatened species, quickly providing prohibitions on harming, killing or trading the species. If the Blanket Rule is rescinded, species-specific rules would have to be enacted, imposing additional procedural delays and uncertainty at the most critical time for the species' survival. And with more and more species in danger each year, that’s a risk that we as a country cannot afford to take.
Also, @why-animals-do-the-thing / @animalphotorefs this seems like something that your reach might help with, and that's relevant to your blog(s).
If you run into issues, try turning off your VPN if you have one, in case it's getting annoyed that you're not "in the U.S.".
If you need a template, I'm putting one I got sent at work under the cut. (But check out the Oregon Zoo link, too! Or better yet, write your own! Unique and individual comments catch more attention than copy-pasted ones!)
Thanks for the tag, I definitely want to jump in here because the most helpful thing any individual can do is write your own comment.
I’m going to give you a little bit of information about the process that’s happening here, why it’s happening, and how you can best contribute to protecting the Endangered Species Act. You can skip it by scrolling to the red text, but you’ll be best set up to comment and help if you know some things about what’s happening first, so please stick with me. I promise to be as simple and jargon free as possible.
First, and to catch people's attention as they scroll, here's two red wolf sisters: a species the ESA actively preserving. This is who we're doing this for.
To clarify one thing: they’re not trying to totally repeal the ESA, the entire law, they’re looking to roll back regulations implementing it/enforcing it to what was being used in 2019. This is still bad! Very bad! But a thing that’s important when dealing with legislation/regulation is precision in the language we use.
Okay, so here’s what you need to know. This is part of what is known as the “notice-and-comment” rule making process, which is federally mandated. This happens with the implementation of regulations to enact new laws, or changes to the interpretation of laws. Laws like the ESA, once passed, are delegated to various federal agencies and departments to enact and make happen, and they do that by deciding what regulations need to exist to fulfill the text and intent of the law. This change to the ESA is happening because one of the earliest executive orders from this administration “directed all departments and agencies to immediately review agency actions to identify those actions that potentially impose an undue burden on the identification, development, or use of domestic energy resources, and, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, consider suspending, revising, or rescinding agency actions identified as unduly burdensome that conflict with this national objective.” So, as @sweetfirebird said, literally go figure out what laws and regs and protections they can interpret differently, put on hold, or trash for the energy sector. Fucking gross.
This “notice-and-comment” process is the process with which all these federal agencies go about exploring changing regulations. It’s a formal process that is specifically designed to allow stakeholders to have input on what happens. Good news: in the ESA, the public is literally a stakeholder! It’s written into the law that any “personal” (basically an individual or a group of individuals) can sue the government for a violation of the law. This is actually historically the prime enforcement mechanism of the ESA. Which means you, as an American on tumblr reading this, have absolutely valid standing to go tell the feds to knock this shit off. And with the way the “notice-and-comment” process works, they actually have to take your argument into account. (Yes, even though we know this admin is a piece of shit and dgaf). Here’s why.
A “notice and comment” process has four major steps.
Agency issues a notice of proposed rulemaking. That’s what you’re looking at in the first link @sweetbirdfire shared. They have to describe what the rule they want to make/change is and explain the legal authority for the rule.
The public must be given an opportunity to participate in a written comment period. That’s what you’re being asked to do - submit a comment before the comment period is over on the 22nd.
The agency must “consider all relevant, timely-submitted comments. If it decides to issue a final rule, the agency develops the regulatory text along with a preamble explaining the rule’s basis and responding to all significant issues raised in the comments.”
Final rule is published.
Okay, so why did I jump to a direct quote from federal documents in the third bullet point? Because that’s the really important shit. When federal agencies move forward with rulemaking after a public comment period, they are required to consider and response to all significant issues raised. And that is why you should write your own comment if you can.
It’s really common for organizations encouraging people to leave public comment to ask people to send in form letters. It’s easy, it takes no time or real work, it shows a lot of general public support on the issue, and they can quote the comment numbers when they’re lobbying.
But! What I’ve been told by serious professional people who work with regulatory agencies is that all those form letters only have the functional weight of a single comment during the “notice-and-comment” process. If 100 people only bring up the same significant set of issues, that requires far less time and work for the agency to respond to than even 20 people writing in with their individual concerns. I’ve seen follow-ups on comment periods where they actually count how many people raised issues on a single topic or concern - but the form letters only counted as one “comment” because they were the exact same thing.
And while the political agency head probably wants to fast-track this process of changing the regs to let the feds tear up whatever the fuck they want, a “notice-and-comment period” is a really good way to gum up those gears. There are still people in lower-level positions who do this daily work and I expect that they’re opposed to this and will go through the whole process like they’re been trained to. Under normal administrations, an overwhelming number of concerns raised during comment periods have stalled the creation/change of specific regulations for a decade. This is a process that works best when as many people as possible participate, and it’s detrimental to our interests as invested members of the public that that isn’t more widely known or the process understood.
So! What does that mean you should do here?
Write your own comment if you have the time/spoons.
Literally, write it in your own words, rather than using the form letters provided. If you make it a “different comment” it has to be considered separately and your concerns on the topic will be given more weight. Even if you just stick to the topics the Oregon Zoo offered: to be clear, they’re really good ones.
But, you’ll have even more impact if you can tie it to specific concerns for you. It takes a little more work so I don’t expect everyone to do this, but if you have some specialized or local knowledge that can be relevant, this is a great time to drop that in. Tie the concern to endangered or threatened species in your specific community, or an ecosystem that you know companies might want to pillage.
Your comment doesn’t have to be super well written or perfectly edited. It can be in language about as casual as you’d use in a tumblr post (with punctuation, though). This isn’t something you’re turning in for a grade - it’s raising your hand to say hey, I object! You’re not a major advocacy group or professional org, you don’t have to be perfect, you just have to tell them how you feel. That being said. Public comments are public record. You can submit them anonymously but don’t include identifying information.
Here’s a link directly to the comment portal. While the site has a text box embedded in the page, you can also submit a document/file containing your comment.
https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FWS-HQ-ES-2025-0039-0001
Comments close at 11:59 PM EST (4:59 GMT) on December 22nd. We have less than five days to get more comments in. I’m really not kidding when I say every unique, individual comment makes an impact. Let’s do this.
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Even when he's eating, the little weirdo…
ID: two photos of an albino ferret sitting in a strange way, almost folded over on himself the way a person would sit, while he eats from a small red dish in the kitchen. In the background of the first photo two of his brothers can be seen behind him, also eating and sitting the normal way for ferrets. End ID
He will literally play with anything but the toys I get for him
ID: a video of a sable ferret playing with a dark blue slipper on beige-carpeted floor. It's nearly the same size as he is, and he juggles it, rolls around with it, and sticks his head inside it. End ID.
There was a garage sale with a working fireplace for $10! No longer will my fingers and toes turn white from the cold!! Plus, the most important thing: Sir Sumo loves it.
ID: two pictures of a fake fireplace and a white ferret in front of it. In the first picture, the ferret sits right in front of the fireplace, with his front paws up against it. There is a white, fluffy rug underneath him. The fireplace is turned on and is bright orange inside. In the second picture, the ferret lies on the white rug. End ID
What’s he dreaming about?
ID: ID: a video of a close up of a roan ferret sleeping in someone's arms. As he dreams, his paws and nose twitches. End ID
My reading buddies these past two weeks when I was extremely sick
ID: two photos of ferrets cuddling in a cream crocheted blanket on someone's lap. The first features a roan ferret, Igor, stretched out on his back, and the second features an albino ferret, Sir Sumo, curled on his side. In the top right corner of each picture is a cropped-out page of a book. Both ferrets are sleeping. End ID