My name is Calib James and I am the big, bad boy of the bunch.

This is my sister, Samantha Beatrice; Sammy for short.  All the boys chase her because she's such a cute little chick.

This is my sister, Darrell Leroy Renee.  You are probably thinking she has a boy's name.  Yes she does because Mom thought she was a boy for three months.  Come on Mom!  Instead of changing her name, Mom just added Renee to the Darrell Leroy.

This is my next sister, Tifa Jane.  Tifa is such a petite little girl.  She's a hot little chick too.

This is my last sister, Bonnie Lou.  Boy are we boys overrun by girls.  Bonnie isn't like the other girls.  She's strange.  She drives Mom and Sissy nuts sometimes.

Finally I can get to my brother, Clyde Dale.  He is Bonnie's brother but isn't as strange as Bonnie.  Sissy says that Clyde is simple.  He can't help it.  He is kind of a wimp.  Definitely not the macho man I am.

On May 1, 2000, our big bro Willie Bob died.  We are still pretty sad because Mom and Sissy really loved him so much.  He was such a sweet guy.  He got awfully cranky now and then, but we understood it was only because he didn't feel good.  Mom took him to Cornell in hopes of getting the adrenal tumor removed.  At that point he only had a month or less to live.  As much as Mom didn't want to, she had him put to sleep because she didn't want him to suffer any more.  He died from the adrenal disease and insulinoma. 

 Click on Willie's picture to go to our Memorial Page.

On December 8, 1998, Skeeter Ray died from a rare cancer in ferrets called Chordoma.  Mom took him for surgery in hopes of having another three to four months with him.  He tried to hang on through Christmas, but just couldn't do it.  He died three weeks after his surgery.  He was Mom's little Ray Ray and we still miss him very much.

Click on Skeeter's picture to go to our Memorial Page.

In the summer of 1999, Mom took in two six year old ferrets from a friend of a friend.  Their names were Ariel and Chewbacca.  Both appeared to be in good health.  They had been taken to a vet before Mom got them and had been given a clean bill of health.   Labor Day weekend both Ariel and Chewy started having some health problems.  Both were taken to our vet.  Chewy died on September 8, 1999 from liver cancer.  At that time Ariel was diagnosed with insulinoma.  Our vet took her to surgery on September 22, 1999.  The insulinoma had spread to her liver.  There was nothing that could be done to save her at that point.  Mom had to make the difficult decision to have her put to sleep.  She died three weeks after her brother.  Mom didn't have Ariel and Chewy that long but both were very sweet ferrets and we grew to love them very much in the short period of time we had them.

   Click on Ariel and Chewy's picture to go to our Memorial Page.

 

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