ferretface

So a couple of weeks ago when bigboobedcanuck and bliss_ were here, I happened to notice that one of my ferrets was having some bathroom trouble. In and out and back and forth from his litter box, like he was trying to go and couldn't. This is not good, I said, and brought him right in to the vet, because I don't mess around with issues like that.

Later that same day, Supervet called and said, "Your ferret has bladder stones. They're blocking his urethra. We're taking them out."

"Fine," says me, because whatever Supervet says, goes. So he performs the surgery and Tug is fine and spends a night in the hospital and blah blah. I went and picked him up the next day (to the tune of a large amount of money, but that's what happens when your vet is the most amazing doctor to ever walk the earth) and Supervet brings him into the room and then gives me this long explanation about how they had to reroute his urethra and he won't be using his regular little ferret boy dingaling but now will sort of pee like a girl out of a little hole.

"No problem," I say, which is usually what I say whenever Supervet says anything to me because he is God. So I bring Tug home and cry a little at his shaved paw and his shaved neck and his shaved belly and his biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig scar, which does not bother him half as much as it bothers me, and I proceed to watch him like a hawk every time he goes in his litter box and pees like a girl.

So that was about two and a half weeks ago, and the ferretface is fine and happy and has no idea he has a rerouted urethra.

I, on the other hand, look at my fuzzy boy and think, "You're a hermaphrodite."

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