Hello everyone, Thought you might be interested to hear about what the past couple of weeks at the WFA shelter has been like. First, lets start way back two week ago on Monday, Our Director, Co-Director and a member took two ferrets to the Kingsgate Animal Hospital in Kirland. Michelle has adopted Goblin from our shelter back some months ago. After adopting him she found out that he probably has insulinoma, and also has a severe bladder problem. She had decided after many visits to her vet that she needed another vets opinion of what is all wrong with Goblin and if there is anything she could do for him. Dr. Cohen checked out Goblin and said that he only way he could tell for sure what was going on was to have an ultra-sound done on Goblin He quoted her a price of aorund $180.00 for the Ultrasound. So Michelle decided that she would go ahead and have this done. The ferret from the WFA shelter, Fifi was brought in to see what he thought about the tumor on her tail. Liane had went to another vet and had a lab test done and found out that it was non-cancerous. This vet we felt should have went ahead and removed the tumor ,but she chose not to. Therefore, we felt that we should get another vets opinion, because there was still infection in it and was not getting better. Dr. Cohen agreed with us that Fifi's tail whre the tumor was had to be taken off. The appointments were set up, Fifi would go in Wednesday afternoon and be operated on Thursday, I would be picking her up, since Liane and her family was headed to California for a long deserved winter break. Goblin would go in on Monday. Well it ended up Fifi couldn't be operated on because Dr. Cohen got sick. On Monday Michelle, took Fifi and Goblin both back to the vet. Monday evening, when Michelle went to pick up the ferrets, she found out that not only did Dr. Cohen do an ultra-sound on Goblin, but also took a sample of the tumor that he found in Goblin's prostrate glands and set it out to find what type of cancer it was. When she went to pay the bill for Goblin it ended up over $400.00. Michelle was not only upset to find out about all the tumors, she was also upset that they didn't call her before they took the fluid out of Goblin to get her permission to do it. As for Fifi she is slow on the mend and I sure when summer comes she will have fur over her tail, and will find a new new mommy and daddy. While Liane was in California, we rescued 2 ferrets from the Crossroads Petco, that had been brought back because the owners were moving to California and didn't want to try and sneak them into the state. These are two handsome males, One a Chocolate Mit and the other a Siamese Chocolate Sable. These two ferrets have already found a home. One of Michelle's friends is planning on adopting them. Today, A very beautiful light Silver Panda, was brought to my home to be taken to the shelter. Her name of course is Panda, she is about 7 months old. the first owners had turned her over to the Animal shelter. One of the employees took her and found a home for her. Panda's mom had her for about 4 months and because she is moving in with a person that has a large dog, that would love to have Panda for dinner, she decided it was only fair to find Panda a home where she would be safe. If anyone in Washington would love to adopt Panda please get in touch with us. This afternoon, Liane, Linda and I went to Bothell to pick up three ferrets that acouple had to get rid of because they were moving to Spokane to live with his parents and the parents said they could only take 3 ferrets with them. So they had to give up three of them. The director was told that the Dark eyed white ferret was blind because of a cat scratch. Well, we had no ideal what we were getting ourselves into. When we got to the apartment we found the poor ferret hiding in her blankets. We pulled her out ofher cage and found that she had a huge infected tumor looking eye the size of a large marble. We immediately called the closest vet we knew, and was able to get her in to see the her. Dr. Mitchelle could not tell bylooking at the infected eye if there was an eye in the socket or if it was gone. So we had no other choice to leave her there so she could put her to sleep and try and open the eye area to see what was behind it. She us later and told us there was no eyeball. and that when she opened it that htere was a very large amount of green infection in it. Shehas had to put drains in the area to try to get it to drain. She has sent a smaple of it to the lab to find out what kind of infection it is. Depending on what the infection is, If a type of gangrene has set in, it may have spread into her sinus pathway and then into other organs. We hopefully will be picking up Emily, that her name on Monday. We now have to take all our money out of the shelter account to pay for this. Please say a prayer for us that we do not get anu more serious ill ferrets in the shelter that has to go immediately to the vet and have surgeries. ect. Some good news we do have some Super Pet cages and other type of Petco cages that have been donated to us that have not even been out of the boxes that they came in. So if anyone is looking for ferret cages in the Washington area and can come to the shelter to pick them up, please contact us. We will be offering these cages at a much lower price then you could get in a petstore. Also if anyone is interested in adopting ferrets please contact me or Liane so we can set up an appointment for you to visit our shelter. As I said we just rescued 7 ferrets this week. A couple of light Silver Pandas, a beautiful Silver mit. Also a couple of ferrets that need to be neutered. As for my ferrets well they are all happy and health. Kodiac is getting larger and beginning to look more like his father, Nicki and his Grandfather, White Russian. A couple of ferrets are beginning to shed their winter coats. [log in to unmask] and the 25 tails wish you a happy spring! [Posted in FML issue 2974]