Chapter 6: The Shelter
Coony was placed in a small cage. The cages next to him also housed ferrets. The cages were all the same. Each one held a bed (not a hammock, as Coony noticed to his chagrin), a water bottle, and some food. There were no toys.
He could hear dogs barking. A kitten cried loudly. A parrot screeched.
The animals such as ferrets, birds, and hamsters were rarely let out of their cages. Most of the volunteers wanted to help the dogs and cats and play with them. A little ferret was deemed much less important.
Coony had gotten into the habit of chewing on the cage bars. He was so bored! A ferret is just not meant for life in a cage all day!
One day someone came with a bag! There were toys for all different animals, including ferrets! Now finally he had something to play with!
But toys were not enough for the ferret! “Slink” as the workers had named him, wanted human affection and attention! At least in the pet store Susie had taken him out and played when him when she could. Have different things would be if she had taken him home instead!
A normal day for Slink consisted of waking up, eating drinking, playing a little bit and taking a nap. Then he would do it all over again.
At Billy’s house there had been tunnels to run through! At Pete’s house he could run freely around the house! At Sarah’s house he had gone for lots of walks! But now there were none of those things. He did not even have a hammock.
People came to look at him. Slink would get very excited thinking they were going to take him out and play with him. But that never happened. One of the ferrets in the cage on his left was adopted. The next day another was there to take its place.
The Chihuahua puppy across was taken away too. A tortoise shell kitten took up residence in that cage.
Then, after Slink had been in the shelter for two long months, he saw some one that he knew!
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