Ohhhh BOy Hey ! friends, It's your ol' buddy Jerimiah here - now I knows it has been a while since I could get to the keys but shelter Mom has been kinda not available to me for updates- ya see she has been sewing her little fingers to the bone- seems she gets one order done like the tents for the FerretStore, then she gets another order. We's got RATS living in our hammies! That is right! The local rat rescue all but cleaned us out of hammies last week- and since the loco pet shop needs some hammies, Mom said ebay need some hammies and now another pet shop wants more hammies- poor ol Mom is not sleepin' like she should. She is a bit frazzled because she needs to get the stuff done as we have sick kids that need help! Our ol' guy Harry "Professor Harrington Ferretwise", well Mom has been giving him lots of medicines... he seems to have a tiny problem in the waterworks area... 2 weeks ago his water turned green-- now it is dark yellow even with lots of medicine.... He is ol spleen got big again too-- so Harry poor Harry goes to the vet SAT AM - can you believe that on a weekend even? for a another zipper job so they can find and fix his plumbing. Mom is hoping she can get stuff all done so she can stay up with him and make sure he gets off to a good recovery. She said to tell the special friend that sent vet money from SOS a very big THANKS.. Ol' Gravy, one of the starvation kids has not been well either he has another big ol' spleen ( makes his belly funny) and so he had to have blood work-- (boy he smelled funny when he came home) -- seems he is anemic and has low blood sugar too but the kidneys look good - the vets going to give Ol' Gravy boy a zipper too as soon as Harry is off to a better start-- then there's the little lady Biscuit - well she has pink thighs. Yeah they sure do look cute that fluffy white fur with pink hot pants-- but Mom said the vet has her on watch and she will need surgery too-- so that means Mom has to make a LOTS more hammies to get everyone feeling better! Well the good thing is after all the sick kids get squared away, is that the place looks much bigger now -- that is because a entire cage unit is missing -- it is really fun instead of running up and down the aisles we can run across the room! What happened you ask? Well see the boys that can't hear like me - Jasper & Nikki- they picked a man who came to visit several times - each time the man (and lady) came to visit, Jasper ran to the man-- now they really came to see Muggs the baby-- but Jasper would have nothing less than the man. The guy finally got it on the second visit when Jasper stood in front of him and scratched on his p[antleg.... So they decided when they got ready they would come get the boys Jasper & Nikki.. then all of a sudden they called back AGAIN -- could they take Muggs too? Then they would have 1 ferret who would hear them and maybe Jasper & Nikki would follow?? Well Mom said ..... SURE! :) The cage had not arrived yet - so Mom loaned them the one here-- until there's gets in... They are so happy.. the folsk called and said they are having a blast in the new home. Muggs teases the little dog Bunny... Bunny sits out side the cage and wants to play-- Muggs sticks his nose out his paw out lies on his back but Bunny can't play-, so she whines. In a few days they are going to let everyone meet I bet Muggs will give that little dog a run for her money! Hehehehe. Oh and best yet Cheerio's it rained Cheerio's again at the shelter and IT WAS NOT MY FAULT! Big Grin! Mom said it was such a mess it filled up 3 vaccuum bags and there were a lots of soft poos hehehehehe... But we ALL got extra cheerio's we tried real hard to help clean up- there was holes in the box and holes in the bag and it was sooo funny! I don't zactly know what Mom was saying but her mouth did the fishy thing again- opening and closing opening and closing all the time the machine was sucking up them wunnerful Cheerio's! If you care to check out the special hammies on ebay-- http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult &query=ferret+wise&cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&ht=1 &from=R10&currdisp=2&itemtimedisp=1&st=2&SortProperty=MetaEndSort &BasicSearch=++ [good luck on that one! BIG] Mom says all the funds will help get the next three surgeries that need taken care of. Meanwhile, I am going to try to teach Gravy & Biscuit some neat things for their recovery period... Harry is just too nice to do the right kind of ferret tricks! Your buddy Jerimiah Ferretwise Mascot, ferret Wise SHelter www.ferretwise.org [Posted in FML issue 4030]