Bandit

This is very difficult..tomorrow I am taking Bandit the ferret to the vet to be put to sleep. He has been battling cancer for so long and now, he just cannot fight it anymore. His legs are not doing what he wants them to do, he has lost control of his bladder and his bowels and he has been loosing weight. His quality of life has gone downhill and I know the only thing we can do for him right now is ease him out of suffering and let go of him. He can go somewhere where he no longer has to fight his own body. He arrived to us about 3 years ago at 5 years old, he came to us in a tiny cage and with no fur on his body or tail. He had adrenal gland disease and we fund raised to have the surgery done to take out the bad adrenal gland and correct him. He went through the surgery great and healed and also grew his fur back in about 2 months time. We then placed him up for adoption.. only to realize soon after that he still had something wrong with him. We took him back to the vet and found out he had insulinoma, a tumor on his Pancreas. This wasn't quite so easily corrected. We decided to keep him with us as a full fledged family member since we knew he would always have medical issues. He was on prednisone for over a year and we dealt with sugar level drops from his insulinoma. Now at 8 years old , he is skinny, he has battled cancer for a very long time, he fought the good fight. It was so hard to even make the appointment for tomorrow, and it will be even more difficult to let him go and say good bye to him when the time comes. It is the kindest thing and the only thing we can do for Bandit right now, he is distressed over his own body not doing what he wants it to do. He is also Daddy's boy, Ray loves him to death as much as I do. Here are some pictures of our little man. This is such an agonizing decision, but I can tell it is time...