January 2007 News Possum NEW Senior Reporter Ziggy Reporter of a higher order Andy watching from Rainbow Bridge HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!!!!! WOW 2007!!! It is going to be a great year! Possum Here: Boy has we had a wonderful Christmas. Mum was home a long long time; she did not has to drive the big yellow thingy for a whole week. We love it when mum can stay home with us. Lots and lots of things have happened here at the shelter, so many I do not know where to start. Ernie here: Now mum? Mum here: Yes Ernie; go ahead. Ernie here: Miss Possum, I know where to start. Possum here: Hey who is that? Andy pants is that you? What is going on? Come on; who do I hear getting into my news? Mum here: No Possum it is not your Andy pants it is Ernie; he is going to help you do the news this month, maybe he can even be cub reporter.... Possum here: I aint gonna share this news with that Ernie kid! Nope; nope; nope I'm not! And I thought 2007 was going to be a good year! What was I thinking? Mum here: You will or you will not do the news at all there Missy! You go ahead Ernie you tell some news. Ernie here: First off mum is taking registrations for the next International Ferret Symposium; she is going to get real busy doing that; so if you humans out there are thinking about going to Oregon to be a vendor you need to get in touch with our mum just as soon as you can. If you want to know more about the symposium you can go here: http://ferretcongress.org Possum here: Hey! Hey, you stop that! How did you get all the information? How are you getting so smart, so fast? Ernie here: Well; Miss Possum you see, Luke and I live in the cage that Andy Pants use to live in. It sits up high right in the pathway of mum doing this, that and other things. When people come to help or even just visit they talk about important things like the 2007 I.F.C. Symposium that is going to happen in Portland Oregon in June, so I hear them. You see Miss Possum sometimes it is better to listen than to talk. Sometimes it is better to lie in your hammock quietly watching and taking it all in. Possum here: MUM!!! That Ernie kid is picking on me! Mum here: No Possum he is not picking on you he is telling you what you wanted to know, he is telling you a truth. That is not picking. Possum here: HUMP! I shoulda knowed you would take his side. Ernie kid, I do lay in my hammock to watch what is going on! Ernie here: Yes Possum you do lie in your hammock quietly when no one is in the room. When mum or anyone else comes in you jump up and start dancing and digging at the cage bars as though you have not seen the outside of the cage in weeks. That blasted toy Miss Lisa O. sent you; talks as much as you do! How can you learn anything when you do not sit quiet and listen? Possum here: What ever!!!!! I am going to tell some news now, so just leave me to it! Our Jojo is at Rainbow Bridge. He gots real sick so miss Cathy R tooks him to see our favorite doc. Miss Donna went to get him to come home. But he had to leave for Rainbow Bridge anyway. I get so so sad for our mum. Mum takes the ones that do not get to be here long hardest. She says they hardly get to know how loved they are before they leave. MEG WENT TO RAINBOW BRIDGE TOO. Mum hosted the ferret lovers club Christmas party here at the shelter, it was a fun time! We even had some new people come to the party. Mr. Ken and miss tiara are the new ones that was here to join us. There was lots and lots of people, food and fun. If you want to know more about the club go here. http://ferretloversuny.org/ Miss Cathy r came the day before to help mum get floors mopped and things ready to set up on Sunday. Miss Stephanie, Miss Kristie, and her daughter Katrina came real early Sunday to help mum get things set up. Miss Mary brought a super size gift basket to raffle. That basket sure was a super super size, it brought us lots of cash, so thank you Miss Mary and all who sent money to buy tickets. Miss Mary is so good at making gift baskets; they are so beautiful, and full of ferrety things. Here are the picture links of the party pictures. Thanks Mr. Harry for putting them up for mum. http://community.webshots.com/user/lakeroad2 http://good-times.webshots.com/album/556657418ejQMSP Miss Stephanie did a serving tray raffle for us too! Mum says we are so blessed because we have so many many humans that do so much to help her feed us and take care of us. Miss Stephanie took Christmas pictures of fur kids for anyone that wanted them. Cept NO ONE wanted a picture of me! Mum says, Miss Stephanie is the most talented and creative person mum knows. Mum got word that the baker bunch, Miss Cathy d. Nancy and Sara s AND MISS DONNA D. were all sick so they could not come to the party. Mum says phew! she sure thanks them for not coming to share what they had! Mum gets enough of sharing from the little 2 legged germ factories she carries around on that big yellow thingy she drives every day. Ernie here: My turn Possum; please. Miss Mary and Miss Joy came in on January 1 to bring 5 new shelter kids from Fulton. These babies needed to be saved so Mary and Joy did the transport for mum. Miss Ret did the phone calls cuz mum don't like talking on the phone, especially when she has to talk to humans that wants to throw away fur kids. Mum finds it hard to be nice. She can be nice on the puter cause she can walk away get over being crabby, then answer them, but the phone she can't do that. Thanks you guys for helpen mum save these kids. 2 of the 5 are having a heard time settling in and being happy. I know how that is because I felt the same way when I came here. I did not understand that the humans that had me left me. The humans that had me moved away and left me and Luke locked in the cage in an apartment that no was living in, so no one knew we were there. We went several days before the land lord discovered we had been left behind. I am happy now but for a while shelter mum had to force feed me Duck soup (the REAL Duck soup) and medicine because I was trying to die. Mum tolds me one morning I know you are trying to die, so if that is what you want you will have to do it with me fighting to keep you alive. I am glad mum made me see it was going to be okay living here, that she was going to love us, keep us warm, fed and clean. I like it here now. I also has a far away mom in Oswego NY so she sends me nice things and pampers me. Mum is just going to have to teach Louie and Sebastian they will like it here too. Possum here: OH pleeeease! You're supposed to be telling news not telling sob stories! Mum here: That is enough Possum! The news is getting long so finish it up! Possum here: Fine! You always take Ernie's side. We had new kids come to camp, the Donahue kids, they had a good time. We had new humans come to see us, they want to adopt. They played with Jack and Jill but Jill was being a poop that day. So mum got them Winkin, Blinkin, and Nodd out to play with. The girls fell in love with Jason and Jackie. Mum was pretty impressed with Jason and Jackie too. Oh! Oh Miss Anna w. came to help she stayed with us for 4 days! She got every scrap of laundry done for mum, all the cans and bottles done. there were lots too and she mixed up several buckets of food. Mum says she is welcome to bust buns anytime she wants to. Mum won the ferret depot grant this year for us. Stacie came to our house to build a cabinet for mum that she did not have time to put together. Miss Donna and Miss Stacie was here last weekend helpen mum, so mum got pictures of them working so she could send them to PetSmart for the contest she is working on. Miss Kristie came to help on Sunday Okay we has enough news for now, I want everybody to write to mum and tell here I do not need the Ernie kid helpen with the news. Till next month. Senior reporter Possum Andy: watching from Rainbow Bridge Ernie: Maybe the Cub-reporter? Our Shopping Mall http://www.shopforcharityday.com/144118 International Ferret Congress Vendor Coordinator http://ferretcongress.org Lakeroad Ferret Farm Rescue Shelter http://www.ferretfarm.org E-Mail [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML 5482]