Memorials

In this section, you will find an honour roll for all of our beloved companions listed in alphabetical order by the first name. Please click on the letters to see the memorials that have already been added.

Animal friends will be remembered on our Today We Remember page on the anniversary of their death.

Animal friends that passed away within the last 3 years will also be remembered on our Facebook page. Please note that only memorials with a photo included and the date of death recorded can be shared on Facebook.

08/06/11 - 20/07/14
Human family: Kern Keeley
Photo(s) of Misaki Keeley (8)

Misaki Keeley

What can I say about Misaki? She was amazing, determined, intelligent, inspirational, gorgeous and a fighter until the very end.
Misaki didn't have the easiest life. Her sister, Usagi, and her came into my life on the 8th of August at two months old as two pure white balls of fluff. Both showed incredible intelligence, so easy to train and a bit too quick to catch on.
Sadly, both began having fits after being given what we believe was the wrong type of vaccine. After several trips to the vet, her sisters seizures became progressively worse and we didn't think she'd pull through. Misaki had always been the more mothering of the two and took care of her sister night and day. Eventually Usagi was playing again but at four months, during play time, she was hit with a sudden seizure and passed.
Misaki took to being a single ferret well enough but I regretted never buying her a playmate. Misaki's tricks grew more advanced, even learning to walk a couple of steps on her hind legs. But she still had her seizures and at eleven months, a bad one left her mainly paralysed.
After being taken to a much better vet (Whom I owe her life and my eternal gratitude), she was put on medication, exercises, and special food. She required hand feeding and couldn't go to the toilet on her own. A year later, she was taking to crawling about and a few months after that, a few strides!
A few weeks before her death, I ended up with a large, seemingly stupid brute of a male ferret which I renamed 'Bear'. Turns out, he was quite the charmer too! I was now the proud carer of two amazing little creatures (Misaki still being my secret favourite at the time) but it wasn't to last. She had a mammary gland infection, I was aware but, despite being on medication, she passed away while I was at work. I do not know if she was taken by a fit or simply slept as she slipped away.

Always my determined little girl, she charmed everyone, especially me. My life revolved around her but I was so happy. She was my life, my little angel, my gorgeous girl. Who couldn't love someone so determined to keep going when almost everyone else gave up? Who had the physical abilities of a newborn baby but the will of a soldier? She was so incredibly special, a unique existence.
I'm sorry I wasn't there for you when you went, maybe Bear was a comfort? But I hope you can forgive me. Thank you for all of the memories, all those happy times I had because of you and you alone. You made my grey skies clear and sunny, I can just hope you enjoyed our time together as much as I did. Thank you for hanging in there for me, thank you for giving me a purpose and so many lessons, and thank you for loving me the way you did.
I love you Misaki.
Goodnight my gorgeous girl, may we meet again across the rainbow.

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