August 2006 News Reporter Andy Cub-Reporter in Training Possum Ziggy Reporter of a higher order Andy Here: Phew you guys sure know how to keep my mum busy when I am in the hospital! I gots 69 e-mails while I was gone. THANKS for all your prayers and good wishes. Our favorite Doc and Aunt Mary fixed me up to feel better. Thanks Miss Donna for taking me and picking me up, thanks Miss Cathy for taking me back, Thanks Miss Stephanie for bringing me home again. I have Lymphoma so I am going to be on medicine to help keep that nasty stuff in check, I will need to teach that Possum how to become the senior reporter so when I am not feeling good she can do it on her own. The trick is going to be to get her to keep her mouth shut and her brain open. Hee hee I just said a funny. Now listen Possum, I got a whisper in my ear from that Ziggy girl; up on rainbow bridge , she has told me that she and Master Largo are preparing my space for me up there, that I am needed so you need to stop talking so much, so I can teach you how to take over this news letter. I want you to do it so well that Master Largo and that Ziggy girl will be proud of the way I trained you. I do not know how much time I have left here so you need to get real serious and learn this NOW!!!! Possum Here: Stop picking on me Andy! I made sure everybody knowed you were sick and in the hospital, I was nice to you. You need to be nice to me! Andy Here: I am not picking on you Possum, I am serious here, I really do not know how much time I have to teach you; so you need to learn EVERYTHING in a hurry. Okay? Can you do that for me and mum? Possum Here: Andy why do you, Ziggy and Mater Largo have your pictures at the top of the news and I don't? Andy Here: Now see Possum that is exactly what I mean, you need to stop being worried about things that don't matter so you have room to learn all you need to learn. I don't know why Possum you will have to ask Mum and Miss Sue that question. Mum is the final decision maker in this shelter, That is why she has the title of Head Super Pooper Scooper, and Miss Sue does all our art work for us so you will have to go see them to get that answer! It really does not matter because one day maybe soon, there will be only you in the picture so why don't we tell the news and not worry about it right now okay? Possum Here: Do you think mum and miss sue will be mad at me if I ask? Andy Here: Possum mum has said over and over again, asking a question is not dumb, stupid or something to get mad about. If you have a question then you need to know the answer, so no, I do not think mum or Miss Sue will be mad at you if you ask them. Can you stop talking now and start opening your brain? Possum Here: okay but if I get in trouble I am going to tell mum that you tolds me to ask her. Now lets get doing the news! Andy Here: Hey Possum that is my line, see you are learning something! I am going to start the news this month you got to do it 2 times in a row. Miss Cathy came to help mum so she went out and vacuumed the pool, Then came back another day to help get Possums new cage set up and in place. Miss Eileen, Mr. Tom and Mr. Dan helped mum get the old canopy down out of the play yard, so mum can put up the new one Miss Stacie got us for out there, that one mum can put up and down like an umbrella. Well when she figures out how. Mum and Miss Deena tried to set it up and they could not figure it out. Miss Stacie is going to come show mum next week when she is on vacation. Miss Deena was here for a couple of days to see if she could adopt Sweet Pea but Sweet Pea fell in love with another family so Miss Deena said she needed to go there instead. Miss Deena will try again another time. Mum says there is no shortage of kids needing homes. Possum Here: Hey Andy where did That Coop and Corey go? Where did Sweet Pea go, who are all the new faces in the shelter? Andy Here: Coop and Corey went to a new 4-ever home in Oswego New York and Sweet Pea went to her new 4-ever home in Spencerport, New York. The new faces are 4 kids that gots to come live here because they were taken to Ithaca S.P.C.A. and they did not have a place for them so SPCA called Mum. Mum contacted all the shelter friends we have in that area to see if anyone could run over to get the 4 kids, Miss Nichole was able to go get them for mum. Miss Nichole also had to go see our favorite Doc that same day, later, at dinner time, so she brought the kids to Cohocton and Mum picked them up from there. They are all boys. Mum thinks about 2 maybe 3 yrs old, in good health, but will be going in to see our favorite Doc for check up and tests to make sure. Possum Here: Hey let me tell some news now. Mum has been real busy with lots of sick kids. Mum says when we get old we tend to get sick and we have lots of old kids here at the shelter. All these kids left for Rainbow Bridge in the past 8 weeks Butter, Sheba, Oscar, Tera and Rascal, Monty, and Fred. All of these kids was borned in the 1090's so that is why they was sick and left us. Miss Stacie has been feeding mum out of her garden. Yum mum says but we can't have any cuz it is veggies. Mum says they will make us sick. We had campers Thiel, Bennett, Cordice, Costello and now ely and Talledo are here. Mr. Harry helped mum get a new shopping mall going, he is taking care of that for her cuz she don't has time to do that and take care of us too. Thanks Mr. Harry for helpen mum take care of us. Andy Here: Possum take a breath! Okay Possum remember we have to make sure we do not make the news too long because then Mr. BIG has a hard time fitting it in on the FML if we do, so we need to stop for this month. I don't know if I will be here next month folks but if I am not will you please make sure Possum does a good job and tell my mum we love her. I will hang around for as long as I can. Until Next Month; Andy Senior reporter Cub-Reporter in Training Possum International Ferret Congress Vendor Coordinator http://ferretcongress.org IGive Fund Raiser for Lakeroad Ferret Farm http://www.kwickbid.com/shop.php?userid=100097 Our Shopping Mall http://www.shopforcharityday.com/144118 Don't have time for a ferret of your own? You can sponsor one of our fur kids. There are new faces at the shelter go take at look at kids looking for new homes. Lakeroad Ferret Farm Rescue Shelter http://www.ferretfarm.org E-Mail [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 5327]