HI All! It's your o'l Buddy Jerimiah -- lots has been going on here-- and I have to tell you Mom sure looks a bit sad these days. Oh we are all fine but she always takes such joy in making ferret photo cards for the Holidays-- well this year the Grinch at the photo stole took her joy all away! She had the newsletter all written- and the cards she though was being made- the newsletter copier died and the folks had to find someone else to print it. The newsletter is being mailed on Monday but this year no cute ferrety angel face will be inside :( Poor Mom! Mom was devastated- Each year she takes the big photo box down they look through all the pictures and pick the face for the HOliday Card. The face she picked this year was Casper FerretWise - Now Casper is an angel ferret-- but he was laughing ands MOm so wanted to share the joy with our shelter friends... Caspers picture was taken by Mom"s friend Sherry who lives in TX and visited here a while back. For a hobby she takes photos in TX , when she is not a policelady, and she took some here for Mom to use o the web site and wherever they would do well... This was what Mom picked ... and no one told her when she turned it in - that would make any difference. After not hearing anything- and phoning several times asking about it - Mom stopped in to check on the photo cards-- nothing and no information... no cards still. The night before Thanksgiving day she gets a call from the store manager At VT COLOR Photo Labs store - seems they won't print our cards this year-- and why?? Because the card she brought in to have the card made from was developed at another photo shop in town, (That is just what the General Mgr. in VT, Mr. Phil Jordan said himself when shelter Dad called him at 802 442-3114) somewhere else! Mom says for once she believes there is a Grinch and this year he is VT Color - he stole her Christmas and all the smiles we could have shared with our shelter friends... She is so sorry and hopes that you will understand why the envelope will not arrive this year-- maybe for next year she can find someone who is more amiable about printing the card for us forgotten fur kids... why should it matter where the photo got developed anyway? I guess she can't use a lots of her pictures anymore.. Meanwhile I am sending this cuz Mom is to sad to tell you herself. :( We will do our best to cheer her up-- and we can send you an email picture of the kid who was supposed to be our Holiday Angel -- if you want to see him on your screen. Please consider stopping in to see me in person on Sat Dec 6th-- NEXT WEE for our Holiday Open House 11AM - 3 PM the winner of the Holiday Quilt to benefit Ferret Wise & SOS will be drawn we still have 110 tickets remaining! Looking forward to snow and Holiday Cheer-- Jerimiah- mascot www.ferretwise.org check out the great tees for HOliday giving at: http://ferretlover97.terrabox.com/shelterhelp-FerretWise.html [Posted in FML issue 4347]