Well this week has been very interesting for us...it all started on Saturday with a special-delivery envelope.....In this large envelope was a letter, some flyers and an envelope. The envelope said to read the letter first and so I did.... As I read the letter, my eyes filled with tears. I couldn't believe what I was reading...or what these folks had done. Janet and Randy - My new heroes. Janet and her husband Randy decided to do a raffle at the NHRA races in February. What I didn't know was that they decided to make Ferret Haven "By-the-Sea" one of the benefactors of this raffle. Noah's Ark, a local dog/cat shelter was the other. Reading the letter, I could see the extraordinary effort these two people put into making the raffle a huge success...and so it was. In the envelope was a check made out to the Ferret Haven for $1,100.00. Janet, Randy - you have no idea how many ferrets this donation will save. How many will get the care that they need, the food, the supplies...I'm truly blessed to have people like you thinking about us. How else do I say it? Thank you. ;') Then on Sunday a very nice article about our shelter appeared in the local newspaper. I will try to scan it and have it up on our web site...we are still experiencing technical difficulties due to our new servers/OS hosting the domain. Monday we receive a phone call from an Elementary school that would like me to do a talk for their 3rd grade class about ferrets and proper care.... I will be at Cook Elementary School on March 20,2002 for a 1.5 hour talk...I am meeting with the teacher that is coordinating this on Saturday.... Tuesday I picked up four more ferrets from the Norfolk SPCA....all healthy and should be ready for adoption in about 4 weeks... its a damn shame about their circumstances - they were found in an empty moving van. All between 2 and 3 years old a sable male, silver male, albino male and panda female.... I can't wait to see what Wednesday will bring! Who said sheltering was dull?! <g> Lisa Leidig, Head Ferret The Ferret Haven "By-the-Sea" www.ferrethaven.org [Posted in FML issue 3713]