HI friends its me your ol friend Jerimiah- Well I guess we has been a little too funny gfor our own good- after all seein' Ma has such a hard time with her back hurtin' and all lately! BUT as ferrets go we are up to our tricks - and now pooping for it! I 'splain all about it in a minute but i HAVE to tell you I GOT MAIL! Yep Jerimiah Ferret - I got mail. Thanks to auntie Marge-- I get my own copy of Yankee magazine each and every month! What's a ferret want with this? Well for one thing since it comes- Ma gets to read to me. Not that I like all the stories myself but I get more of her attention that way. There is lots of stuff she thinks is nifty- recipes, New England stories, art etc. But I get ma to tell me all about it! AND the even better part is-- the shelter gets a donation for every body that signs up for a year of this nifty magazine. Just ask Mom for a subscription card and our vet - spay / neuter fund gets a hefty little contibution mailed form the magazine folks-- REALLY! That is another GREAT thing about the Yankee folks... they help ferrets and other shelter animals with the Community Partners program- Mom says it pays for several surgeries to make us kids better every year! NOw back to the story- see the other night we all got tucked in and all got a few raisin treats instead of cheerios. One of the trio has been a little stressy and Mom thought it would help-- so she forgot and put the raisin box way up high on the very top of the strage bin.; Now most of us kids could not get it -- BUT Beau & Sierra have noght patrol and they gets pretty bored-- so while working i tandem they managed to get the whole box of raisins down to the floor. Now they could only eat so many-- then they got filled up so then they decided to have a raisin stashin' party. AND they emptied the box and distributed them to every corner in the shelter -- unbeknownst to Mom. Well poor Mom with her back finds a pile her an a pilke there in the AM and runs the noisy machine to clean them up-- so she thought. Then the next group comes out-- in the midst of them being out she has a 'mergency run to the vets with some other kid not form the shelter - so they got to stay out all day-- well they ate too many raisins-- so many raisins that by night time raisins were passing right through their poopers. Oh my poor Mom she was about ready to cry. SO no more raisin treats for at least a week she said! :( Sigh-- why wasn't MY cage so lucky ? For those of you looking for new books or other stuff on the internet we just heard that iGive has extended its offer of a FREE $5 bonus for each new shopper until June 30, 2002 ! You can help the wqork at Ferret Wise by joining in with internet shopping at http://www.iGive.com/html/refer.cfm?causeid=1890 and I Jerimiah the ferrets will thank you for it! Meanwhile _ I am plotting the next fiasco here-- hope Mom gets feeling better fast I need a real challenge! Jerimiah www.ferretwise.org see our e-bay auctions at : http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems &userid=creativekolor&completed=0&sort=3&since=-1&include=0&page=1&rows=25 [Posted in FML issue 3786]