Dear Santa, I know you gets lotsa letters from ferts telling you how good dey been and what dey'd like for Kritter-mas. Guess dis is gonna be kinda difrent, cause I not looking for anyting for me. Its more for the shelter kids ... an my dad two, kinda. My dad an all the volunteers at the PFSN have been doing what dey could to get tings for de shelters. Dey all done a good job - even with the mergency at the Oregon Ferret Shelter. But my dad keeps saying, 'Der;s gott be more we can do'. My dad gets dat rainy eye thing around this time every year. I know it's cause he's sad about all the shelter kids wifout real homes. He tell me how important a real home can be. How he and Furrice, his firstest fuzzy, spent thier first Kritter-mas together. Dey was living in the back of a pickup truck and had to cuddle close to be warm. The shelter moms and dads do all they can to keep the shelters open and give de kids what dey needs. I used two be a shelter kid myselv! But dey needs all de help we can give dem. I was playing wif my dads 'puter and found a shelter wish list. I dun know if he was gonna send it to you. I thought maybe I surpwise him an send it myself. Maybe if you an de elves can send even one little ting to each shelter it would make lots happy. My dads been real sad lately.. maybe dis wood help him smile. I know what he;d wike for Kritter-mas.. but I don tink it would fit in de stocking. NEway - here de list... If de elves don know where de shelters are - dey can get the addresses from the PFSN website on de world-wide-woozle. www.FERRETNET.org Tanx Santa ~!~!~! an if you do bring me sumthin - I pwomise to share wif de other kids. Shep - - - - - - - - FRIENDS OF FUZZIES Number in care --- 32 Current vet bill $550 Ferrets needing surgery - 5 ($200 each) Wish List: Wellness Food, PDG, Chicken Soup Cat Food, Felidae Cat food Presently working with hospice shelter ferrets only FERRET CITY Number in care -- 27 Vet Bill $92 Ferrets needing Surgery - 3 ( $100 Each) Wish List: Purina One Food, Glucose Strips, Albon and Amoxicillan OREGON FERRET SHELTER Number in care - 86 Vet Bill 500 Ferrets needing Surgery - 3 ($100 each) Wish List: Albon, Baytril, Carafate, Superior Choice Ferret Diet, 8N1 Ultra Blend ferret diet, Paper Towels, Laundry Soap, stamps, ink for copier, 3 cc Syringes, sleep sacks. Box of Microchips ($140) EMMETT FERRET SHELTER Number in care -19 Vet Bill Pay as they go Needing Surgery 2 ($150-$200 Each) Wish List: C-80 Quality Cage, Small Hepa Air Filter, Pr of Scissors, Portable Ferret Playpen & Mat, 2-3 Petmate carriers, 6 wide mouth water bottles 32 oz size, Combo Printer/fax/xerox machine, Plexiglass Brochure holders, 2 small spray bottles, table cloth, Box of 3cc syringes with needles. LANE AREA FERRET LOVERS Number in Care -- 9 Vet Bill $945 Ferrets needing Surgery - 3 ($650 each) Wish List: New Bld for shelter, micro chips, LapTop Computer, Postage meter & Postage, Digital Ferret Scale, Hammocks/bedding, Water bottles, crock lock dishes, air cleaner/purifyer, Superpet Cages, Pet Taxi Carriers, HP Toner Cartridges 78 & 45, Advantage fleas treatment, vacuum cleaner, Nutrical, Petromalt, Ferretone, Medical supplies (SQ fluids, Amoxi drops or fishmox, prednizone, pedia pred, ivomec, propylene glycol, fishzole. BANDITS RETREAT Number in Care 3 Vet Bills $200 Ferrets needing surgery - none Wish List: Mazauri Food, Zupreem Ferret Diet, Totally Ferret SPOKANE FERRET RESCUE Number in Care 22 adoptables 13 permanent residents Vet Bills - Pay as we go Ferrets Needing Surgery - 1 neuter ($40), 1 monocryptorchid neuter ($140), 1 spay ($70) and 2 adrenal ($120 each). Wish List: Food, Litter and hammocks. LITTLE DUDES FERRET RANCH Number in Care 25 Vet Bills $2500 on charge card Ferrets Needing surgery- 4 (Approx cost $600) Wish List: 2-3 Ferret Homes powder coated, avid microchips, laundry soap Dye & Perfume free, Paper Pellet Litter. N. IDAHO FERRET RESCUE - (information not recieved) [Posted in FML issue 4711]