Hi Everybody..
 
I guess I should say shelter 2 and bad pet store ZIP!!  but one was gotten
out a while back and the other one was todays triumph..
 
What's the scoop [sorry, bad pun there]?  There is a pet store in a nearby
large city that had two full grown ferrets in one aquarium each..  the
aquariums were what is known as 'talls' as they had more viewing surface
than floor space.  The little fellow today is right at 3 lbs.  so this means
he could not even turn around!  He had 2 inches of pine shavings in the
aquarium with him..PERIOD!  no food, no water, no litter box, no blankie, no
toys..  nothing at all.  I got the other one out of there a couple weeks ago
by finding something the owner wanted very badly then holding out till he
greed to trade the fuzzy for the coveted item..  it made him a bundle so he
pounced on me as soon as I entered the store today and begged for another of
the items..  I held out till he was about to cry then reluctantly agreed to
take the remaining adult ferret in trade..  just call us flash the no cash
fuzzy snatcher..  :)
 
Now..  bear in mind..  the law here reads that the pet shop people must
OFFER food and water once per day..  operative word 'offer' here..  if the
fuzzy is sleeping they can hold the dish over the coop and if the fuzzy does
not wake up instantly to snatch the food [same with water] then it's 'Ho
hum..  guess he's not hungry.' and off to the next critter..  this shop has
8 small hermit crabs in a bigger enclosure!  I tried the 'I'll fix up a cage
for the fuzzy with food and water and toys and so on FOR you..  the owner
jumped on the offer..but of course it would be my cage and accessories and
food etc.  to be donated to the shop..  figures right?  Other fuzzy people
extracted a promise to get proper caging.. of course when was not promised..
so you can guess when it will get done..  how about the leap year after
next..that's my guess.  Whenever I stopped by this shop I always snatched
the fuzzys out of the tanks and held and played with them while I 'looked'
at everything there was, some stuff two or three times.. :) then maybe
bought a 5 cent item..maybe..  Yup, I'm a rat, I took up tons of their time
and spent the least I could manage..
 
The kits were housed one to a tank with the same conditions..  but I got a
serious promise from him and his spouse that there would be NO MORE adult
fuzzys in the store ever again..  and two of the employees promised to call
me the second he breaks that agreement.  This is one promise he will keep..
I got more of what he can't seem to live without <evil grin here>...
 
This is the kissiest fuzzy I ever saw..  He is a MF and is about a year
old..  in rotten physical condition but that is fixable..  He is very fat
from no exercise and crummy food but that also is fixable..  Of course he
has a thin coat so he immediately crawled into my knit chenille hat and
refused to even negotiate for it's return.  Happy fuzzy and frozen shelter
Mom.  An open jeepling at 55 mph is a whole lesson in chilly I promise you..
But who cares..  the fuzzy is warm and happy ..  and that's what matters!
 
So celebrate Everybody..  have a raisin on us..  Today is my Birthday and
all the way home I sang 'Happy Birthday to me..Happy Birthday to me..  Happy
Birthday Dear Fuzzy..  Happy Birthday to me!'
 
I think my Higher Power sent me the very best Birthday Gift anyone could
ever wish for..  Don't you agree?
 
Have a Very Ferrety Christmas..
 
[an overjoyed] dayna and the [busy welcoming the new kid] woozles of the
MMOMM rescue/shelter
 
The battered kid seems to reply best to Felipe Noel [actually it's all he
replies to], the Felipe is a combination of Feliz [as in Feliz Navidad] and
Pepe..  and Noel because he is the announcement of something very grand..
the new kid who had no name at all is already partial to Kris Kringle..  We
have a Bullwinkle and Natasha now to find a 'Rocky' to finish off that
trio. :)  Why Bullwinkle.. believe me that is a Moose of a ferret..  <ggg>
[Posted in FML issue 2158]