Her and Dodge would tag team other kids if they accidentally got left out. She would SCREAM like she was being killed, and big Dodge (4 pounds) would come running and grab the other end of the ferret. They were a team… he generally followed her to anything she got into – unless it involved UP.

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Kuri loved people… she loved playing with people.

Here she is taking a Whopper candy from her Daddy Shawn.
Yes, she was spoiled all her life with Love and extras.

Here she is attacking the cat. They had a love hate relationship most times.

March 25, 2008 Kuri had a stroke. I came home from work and found her on the ground seizing. It wasn’t like an insulinomic seizure …she was hunched and turned and bent in different directions. By the time I got her to the vet her seizures were not has back. I got her into the vet and he felt a lump near her butt that he believed was a tumor. He felt that she wouldn’t survive very long due to her condition and what the stroke took out of her. But I saw in her eyes she wasn’t ready to let go and that she still had fight left in her.

I found out through Frontier Ferrets that they had tried a stroke medication on one of their ferrets and it helped the ferret for some time. I knew that Kuri would never be fully functioning again but I wanted to see if she would have some quality of life. It helped. She was still falling over (almost like a broken back meets insulinoma) but she wanted to move. She didn’t want to be stuck in a cage all day. She had a hard time eating kibble because she couldn’t stabilize her head and the food would go everywhere (such a messy eater!). She got soup 3 to 4 times a day.. more at the beginning. She was willing and able to eat it on her own if you propped her up against something.

Last week she started to go back downhill. She was losing weight and not wanting to eat as much. Shawn (her daddy) and I talked and he came over to see her. We made the decision to help her cross over on June 4th at 9:00 am. Her quality of life was gone and in her eyes she said she had enough. I explained to her that it was ok. I would take care of Dodge and if he decided he couldn’t be here without her I would help him too.

June 4th, Tom (her other daddy) woke up and checked on her. She was sleeping in the sleepsack with Dodge. When I got up and checked on her she was in the top sleepsack – where she normally eats. Tom thought maybe she was hungry. So I got her soup ready hoping that she would eat something. When I went to get her, she was half out of the sack and just didn’t look right. When I pulled her out I knew… her breathing was bad and I only had a few minutes left with her. I held her and talked to her some more. She left this world at 7:50 am in my arms. Her Daddy Tom was there. Daddy Tom read her the Rainbow Bridge Poem while I held her in my arms. Her other Daddy Shawn came over as soon as he heard to spend time with her body and say his goodbyes. He wishes he could have been there.. but she had other plans and didn’t want her first daddy to have to see her go… she wanted him to remember her how she was… unstoppable.

She joins her cagemates, Princess Pepper, Queen Spice and Bugz. Her brother Dodge will join her when his time comes (he is now alone because he doesn’t like other ferrets)

Kuri – Mommy loves you and will see you soon. I will watch over your baby brother until you are reunited with him and then with me. You go play and attack those grasshoppers that you love so much… and remember.. if you don’t want to eat the legs you don’t have to… just scoot them under the rug!

Mommy