'Hi Friends - Blossom here,

Well we have some not so wonderful news and some better news today.
Not so wonderful is that Our elder boy Harry aka Professor Harrington
Ferretwise, one of 19 ferrets seized by Police in Manchester NH in Jan
2002, passed away early in the AM on Sunday.  Harry as we liked to call
him, was a slight but elegant gent a light silver blaze who picked our
shelter Mom out from his cage at the ARL.  Well Harry was so wonderful
he was the greeter and comforter here for all the kids that came & went,
but a year ago he got all depressed when the youngsters were all
adopted... so much that Momma had to go and find a younger ferret for
him.  Austin was the one and though Harry was happy - as soon as more
kids started coming into the shelter Harry got real upset.  He just could
not take the hustle and bustle he needed some constancy.  Harry was
getting old for shelter life.  That is when shelter Mom called Judy at
St Gregory's hospice cuz our Harry was crying real live tears.  They
were rolling down his cheeks.

Off they went and Harry was reunited with Lucky at St Gregory's house.
He played like a youngster and got to have a home of his own with free
roam and a mamma who spoiled him rotten.  Harry had been playing up a
storm until Saturday night when he was tired, and started crying again.
Momma Judy held Harry forever.  She told him about all his friends who
were waiting for him at Rainbow Bridge, she told him it was alright to
go, that one day we would all meet and party together.  He ate a few
licks of soup and curled up for the night and Harry drifted right off to
sleep and jumped to Rainbow Bridge.  The folkses are sad, but they know
Harry did it his way and are thankful .  I hope he sends me some extra
treats as I think he has new ones now!

So the better news is Our boy Nestle is a year older.  He had a nice
party with Mom and we all got invited to watch too.  There were n bones
for all!  There were NINE birthday cards for Nestle, some drawn pictures
and he received some TF treats and foamy fries!  What a popular guy!
Momma said he did not have to share his foamy fries, but he did agree to
share the TF treats.  The party will continue as Momma had not enough
time to get the big pile of leaves in we are hopeful she does that for
tonight so in the morning we can roll and play in th leave s at OUR
playtime.  I know Momma plans to have pictures to email folks but has
been busy here with goings on.  They are in the midsts of sending out a
Fall shelter mailing-- so watch for it!

Also there are new foster grandparent pages made.  We hope that robert
gets them linked to the shelter site soon, but you can access them direct
by going to: http://www.earlysunrisefineart.com/page41.html

Today was specially nice for all us here at the shelter, Andrea came to
help Momma withthe mailing-- the best things was that she came and played
with us all afterwards.  Even Nestle got a hug and held but he was more
interested in finding his stash of treats in the paper shred box.
Meanwhile Albus got the most cuddles being the mushy guy he is.  We all
were kind of sleepy after a long day-- so Momma tucked us in our cage
with a treat of course and put Animal Planet on the TV ( a new shelter
treats) for all of us.  Iffen that Albus guy wasn't glued to it!  Hmmmm
wonder what's so special?

Meanwhile Momma is cleaning here getting ready for Fall and has bunches
of neat Holiday gifting things on ebay like mugs, tee shirts and more !
you can check those things out at:
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZcreativekolor

I gotta take a nap i have had a long day,

Friendly licks from
Blossom, spokesferret
www.ferretwise.org

[Posted in FML 5392]