The Greater Chicago Ferret Association (GCFA) is hosting our 16th annual
"Greatest Ferret Show on Earth" on Saturday, October 2, 2004 at the
DuPage County Fairgrounds in Wheaton, Illinois.  The hours are from 9:00
a.m.  until 5:30 p.m..
 
The GCFA is pleased to announce that Bob Church will give a talk on
ferret enrichment.  His talk will take place during the time when the
judges are on their lunch break, which will be about 1:00 or 2:00 p.m.
The GCFA wants everyone in the show hall to be able to attend Bob s talk
and not worry about their ferrets being judged at the same time.  We
believe this will ensure that no one will miss Bob s very enlightening
and informative talk.
 
The GCFA is also honored to have Kim Schilling, author of "Ferrets for
Dummies", as one of our judges.  Wow, you will get to meet two experts
on ferrets at one show!!!!  The GCFA sales table will have "Ferrets for
Dummies" books available for you to purchase.
 
There will be a wide variety of vendors with practical, unusual and
different ferret items for you and your ferret.  As of this posting there
are sixteen (16) vendors, which are the most vendors "The Greatest Ferret
Show on Earth" has ever had.  You will love shopping and seeing what you
must have for your fuzzies.
 
The raffle table will have many, many items such as a large Corner Creek
Acres cage, a beautiful ferret afghan designed by Kathy Nelton of Ferret
Reflections, sterling silver ferret earrings and necklace, the large
Sandicast sable ferret, a cute stuffed ferret, ferret bedding and ferret
T-shirts.  I have only named a few of the items we will offer for raffle.
If you have attended the GCFA show before, you know how many wonderful
items our raffle has!
 
Please visit our website at GCFA.com for directions to the show hall
and further information regarding the show.  The GCFA website also has
pictures from our last three shows.
 
We are looking forward to seeing many of you there!
[Posted in FML issue 4625]