>I TRIED to keep my ferrets from being handled by strangers......they were >in their own Plexiglas playpen or carriers with "Do Not Touch" signs. >But, Bruno has that "Pick Me Up" pleading look in his eyes and loooooves >people. (He was an absolute kissy ferret-slut when he met a certain >bearded FuzzieDad!!!) Are you calling me a stranger Pam???? Anytime Bruno (the kissy face ferret slut) needs a home, you need look no further. What a little loveable ball of fur... I haven't heard of any other sick ferrets from the show. I do have some good news. Rikita, the little albino that I was picking up for Jessica. Well to make a long story short, he has adrenal disease. I don't think it is too far advanced. His new mom and his old mom are working together to get him his surgery. Yeah to Leslie and Jessica. You two are great, and Rikita is a lucky little boy to be loved by you two. Now on to my opinion of the show. I think it was very well organized and went very smoothly. Kudos to all involved. I thought the show was a little slower than last year though. I don't mean the judging, I mean the guests. There just didn't seem to be as many people from the community. The sales at all the vendors that I know, and talked to, sales were down from last year. The shelter that I help with barely broke even. Didn't seem that there were as many shelters with fuzzies to place. Nor did it appear that there were as many vendors, but that may be due to the difference in the layout. This year I finally got to meet Linda Shoemaker. I have long admired her art work. I bought two pictures that she made for me of my last two rescue babies. They turned out even better than I expected. I am going to try and get a pic of them or scan them, some way to get them on the website. They are really great. Thanks Linda... All in all I had a great time, even though at one point I thought we might have to do CPR on Bob, cuz Kat hugged him so hard. I think she was a tad excited to meet the profamed Boob (I meant Bob) I also got some pretty good shots of him that will be gracing the page I am making for the show this year. Enough said about pictures, I am in enough trouble about my ethics for picture taking as it is. The thing that I liked most about the show, other than seeing old friends and making new ones, was the dedication to ADV. We were graced by the presence of Judy Gronwold and there were several of the vendors taking donations for ADV research. Julie Fossa even had a table about ADV and the afghan raffle was an event in and of itself. I will go again next year, but I bet I don't drive again. I couldn't believe Judy got tickets for $88 round trip... FuzzieDad & The Blurry Furrys http://www.geocities.com/fuzziedad Rascal,Treble,Cocoa,Moose,Screech,Hanna,Casey,Havoc,Rainbow,Dodger, Squeeky,Midge,Taffy,Blizzard,Missy, & Grizzly. Never forgetting Loki, Spaz, Sampson, & Charlotte [Posted in FML issue 3525]