HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Well mum tolds me we are not going to call me a cub reporter no more, she says I has been doing this news letter all by myself since Mr. Bones left to go help that Master Largo dude do the news up there on the Rainbow Bridge. She says this is a new year we are going to start out new with me being the Senior Ferret Farm Reporter. So if any of you out there know of something I should be doing and I am not; you just drop me a line I will take care of that in a little ferret heart beat. There has been lots and lots going on here at the shelter this past month. Like I told you in last months news there have been presents coming in almost every day, mum keeps mumbling under her breath that Christmas is over NO MORE presents! Hee hee but I knows she is just kidding she likes to talk big and tuff but I know she has a soft heart and is pleased that so many humans go so far out of their way to make us fur kids happy. Mum calls us blessed! Anyone out there know what she is talking about? Mum got an extra day of vacation from the big yellow thing she drives; she calls it a school bus. It was freezing rain here on Thursday before Christmas so mum got a call telling her there was NO school. Mum was doing the weasel dance. She looks pretty silly when she does that. For as long as we has been teaching her she still don't get it right. I wonder if she had 4 legs and fur if she would be better at it. There have been campers here at ferret camp all vacation and before. We had the Barron kids for a few days, Atwell kids, Deutsch kids, Ford kid, Olsen kids, Robinson kids (mom and dad that drive the ambolince without lights and sirens) then there is that little Houdini that got out on mum last summer and had an adventure "Miss Dak", Mum was having night mares about her coming back to camp. She tolds Dak's dad that if he did not get a letter from camp that means Dak went on another adventure, so mum runed away from home. Oh yeah the Greenberg kids are still here too. Mum is working on your questions Mr. Dave... We have the Powers kids coming in next week. Well Sandy got to go to a new 4-ever home on Christmas Eve. Now mum don't make a practice to adopt kids on Christmas but Mum already knowed the humans that Sandy fell in love with so mum made an exception. Sandy went to live with Mr. Dale and Miss Linda. They is Shelter friends. Sandy is so happy to be in her new home. Mr. Dale sends mum pictures of that Sandy girl sleeping in Mr. Dale's lap. They was meant for each other. Mum gots a report from everyone that has gone to a new 4-home EXCEPT that 2 legged furless Andy!!! Mum tried to get him to answer her emails, Miss Cathy and Miss Donna tried to get him to let them come see the fur kids, he would not return calls, he would not talk to mum about the kids, he was rude and nasty to Miss Cathy; so mum had to tell him he had to reach her or she was going to get the authorities involved. He finally called mum. He was not very nice to our mum. Anyway he told mum to come get the fur kids; he did not want them anymore. So Miss Donna and Miss Cathy went to that Andy's house to pick up the 3 kids for mum. Mum had Miss Dak coming to camp so she could not go get them herself. Mum had the authorities all lined up if she needed them but Andy did finally let mum know how the kids were. They is skinny, but mum says she will fatten them up in no time get them back on the ferret food they should be eating. Mum is feeding them soup too. So Stewart; Peanut; and Butter are back at the shelter. Mum thinks that Andy kid got a girl friend that did not like ferrets that is why he sent them back. Mum knowed the Andy human loved them. He spent too much time here at the shelter learning and helping before he took them home to his house to not love them. Cindi, Jessica and Jake came to help at the shelter, Jessica (a small person) set up a donation box at her house for people to donate to our shelter, she brought us money to help mum buy us food. Thanks Jessica for being a good shelter friend. We sure do love food! Mum calls us Piglets. Mr. Dale found out how much we eat; he was here mixing food for mum and as fast as he filled the 5 gal pail Miss Cindi emptied it filling the containers mum keeps in all our play rooms. The pail got empty real fast. Mr. Dale just stood there and shook his head. 8-) One cool thing happened that day; Dak's dad; got to meet some of the people that helped mum when Dak went on her adventure last summer. Mr. Ed is a real good egg about that Dak kid climbing out a second story window. Miss Donna has not had enough of our abuse (us moving the clean poop papers as soon as she gets them down). She keeps coming down to help mum, and then when mum needs her to check on kids or pick up kids Miss Donna is right there. Miss Cathy has been hanging out with Miss Donna when mum needs them to. Well mum says this is long enough.. But there is one more very very important thing I needs to tell you. There is just 12 weeks before the registration is closed for International Ferret Congress 2005 Ferret Symposium. You need to the site and get your registration in; Mum wants to meet you all in St. Louis so go check this link out http://ferretcongress.org . Get signed up so you can be there too. Okay that's all till next month Ferret Farm Reporter Andy Shelter e-Bay Store http://www.stores.ebay.com/id=4580971 Shelter website and online store http://www.ferretfarm.org Shelter e-mail [log in to unmask] International Ferret Congress Vendor Coordinator http://ferretcongress.org [Posted in FML issue 4745]