Ten years ago, a suffering little ferret launched Cathy Strobach and
her husband, Kurt, into a life neither had foreseen. Today, Zoo's
Ferret Sanctuary NFP is one of the nations most respected ferret
shelters. Zoo's mission is to provide a permanent safe haven to
abused, abandoned, mistreated, elderly and unwanted ferrets.
The 69 ferrets-in-residence at Zoo's include 20 adrenals, 14 with
insulinoma, several with lymphoma and always, there are the abuse
and neglect cases that Zoo has vowed to love and nurture through the
rest of their natural lives.
They include Mary and Noel, two little girls rescued last March from a
dark, unheated garage - starving in a bare, filthy cage behind boxes,
a snow plow and piles of newspaper. Both ferrets weighed less than a
pound and had severe mouth ulcers. (Estimated at about two years old,
they are healthy and beautiful and safe.)
Zoo's doesn't adopt out to the general public, although devoted
volunteers and board members have occasionally taken one or two home.
"There's a lot of interest in dumping ferrets, but not a lot of
interest in helping them," Zoo says. "Our promise to each one is that
no one will abuse or neglect it again, and that we will spend the rest
of its life trying to make up to that ferret for what the last human
did to it."
You can help the ferrets at Zoo's Ferret Sanctuary to live the rest of
their lives in peace, safety and comfort. Visit the Friends of Ferret
Shelters website at www.shelterfriends.blogspot.com and purchase
tickets to win one of these 10 cool prizes:
- 4th of July-themed bedding set, gourmet popcorn and treat sampler,
and ferret gift basket;
- a collapsible, wheeled cooler with a removable liner and tons of
room for goodies;
- a set of adorable "Croc" charms - ferret-shaped, of course!
- a gift pack of Pingford's Porridge from Kimberley Emerson;
- a Super Quadrupus toy perfect for large ferrets, lots of ferrets, or
any ferret that loves to have fun;
- an adorable Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil ferret-y print
by Clara Rodriguez;
- a 36-inch super Tower of Fun handmade by Tom and Cindy Scheidt;
- an adoption of a black-footed ferret of your choice from Prairie
Wildlife Research!
Tickets cost just $2 apiece. Or buy three tix for $5, six for $10.
Every penny will be donated directly to Zoo's Ferret Sanctuary.
Don't delay - enter the June raffle at www.shelterfriends.blogspot.com
today! Many thanks for your support,
Susann Thiel and Lisa Oestereich
Friends of Ferret Shelters
[Posted in FML 5986]
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