August 2008 News Master Largo's Possum Senior Reporter Ziggy Reporter of a higher order Andy watching from Rainbow Bridge Possum jumping up and down trying to get your attention!!! Hey everybody our club: ferret lovers club of upstate New York is having a picnic August 23rd at Miss Stephanie's house in Greece. It is a dish to pass event with Chicken BBQ as the main coarse; (yummy I love chicken) Chicken will be supplied. NO I am not giving up any of my personal stash! You can even bring a fuzz butt (s) if you want. Miss Stephanie's E-mail address is: [log in to unmask] so you can let her know you want to hang out with me; I mean us, she will tell you how to get to her house. . Miss Stephanie put me down for 1 chicken please. Suzie Q here: Oh brother here we go again; it is all about you? NOT!! You have the picnic announced so lets get telling the news! Possum here: Hey Suz has you heard mum muttering something about us writing a book? Suzie Q here: First of all how many times do I have to tell you my name is Suzie Q; NOT Suz and mum does not mutter! I am going to tell my far away mom Anna W. that you will not call me by my given name if you don't stop calling me Suz! Possum here: Man! what side of the hammock did you get up on this morning? Mum does too mutter! I have been here longer than you and I has heard her mutter lots! She mutters like I jump up and down for attention. Suzie Q here: It does not matter what side of the hammock I got up on, you need to learn that the humans that read this news take what we say as fact so you need to be careful what you say about our mum! As for my name; I was given the name Suzie Q by our mum and if that is what she wants me called then you should honor what mum wants! Besides I like my name! Beats the dumb name Possum! Possum here: Are you done? Can we get back to the "subject" at hand? See I remember what I am taught; now I want to talk about mum thinking about us writing a book, have you heard anything about that? Suzie Q here: All I know is; there are some humans owned by ferrets and not that have contacted mum and said they think we (you and I) should write a book, maybe a children's book. I also know that mum keeps saying who would want to read a book that we write. Possum here: what? Mum don't think we could write a book? Who said they think we should write a book? Suzie Q here: I don't think that mum thinks we "could not" write a book, I just think she wonders how many people would want to buy a book we write. Let's see who thinks we should write a book; the Baker Bunch, Miss Loana S., and now Miss Margaret G. thinks we should write a book. They are the ones I have heard mum speak about anyway, there may be more though. Possum here: so humans think we should write a children's book and mum does not think anyone would want to buy such a thing? How about we ask all the humans that read our news what they think about us writing a book,? that way if they think it is a good idea maybe mum will let us do it. And maybe we can get miss sue B. to help us do illustrations' and... Suzie Q here: Woooooh there girl! Don't you think you are getting ahead of yourself? What would we write about? I mean what do 2 legged furless kids like to read about? Do they read? Possum here: I don't know!! This was the humans owned by ferrets and not idea! How am I supposed to know? Suzie Q here: Oh great! You want to write a book, you even want Miss Sue B. to help with illustrations, you want mum to let us write a book BUT you DON'T know what we would write about? That is just POOR! What do you say we get on with the REAL news and forget about this book stuff? So; mum had 12 days off from the big yellow thingy she went back to work on July 7th we are sad but we know she needs to work so we can eat. We understand she needs to be in and out all day long. She was off work just 2 days and on the 3rd day she hurted her back! It was a Saturday so she had to have a hurt back till she could get into see the back doctor; mum calls him the bone cracker. Anyway she saw the bone cracker on Monday then Miss Cathy R. came down with her table on Tuesday and she worked on mum's back too. See Miss Cathy R. is a licensed massage therapist (L.M.T.) Mum felt much better when Miss Cathy got done with her, then mum had another appointment with the bone cracker so she is feeling much much better. Thanks Miss Cathy R. for maken our mum feel better! Possum here: Hey Suzie Q, don't forget to tell the humans that Miss Cathy's business is called "Right Touch Message Therapy". Suzie Q here: Do you mind? I was going too! Then Miss Cathy R. said the lawn is long hasn't Miss Donna been here? Mum tolds Miss Cathy R. that Miss Donna D. had to go to the hospital to have surgery so she had not been here to help. Sooooooo Miss Cathy R. went out and mowed the front lawn for mum. Miss Donna is all better, she came this week and got what Miss Cathy R. did not get to; all done! Mum says we are very lucky to have so many humans want to help mum take care of us. Possum here: Suzie Q, I wish you would let me call you Suz! Remember last month we posted the link to our clinic pictures that Mr. Harry put up for us? Well mum got a report from the place Mr. Harry put them on and 1,479 humans went to look at the pictures that were taken that day!! How can that many people want to see pictures when I am not in them? Here is the link in case you missed it. <http://community.webshots.com/album/563851571pKZvNP> also If you go to more shelter kid's album then to the last page you will see our little DMK Munchkin with her new mom. Thanks for posting that for us Mr. Harry. Munchkin went to live with Miss Susann T. last month. Suzie Q here: Here we go again! It is not about YOU! Possum here: well if it is not about me then how is it that I have 2 boy friends and you have none? Forest and Ralphie think I am just fine. Ralphie even got sad when he thought I was going to run away with Isabella's Super Tonks extraordinaire. Suzie Q here: Big deal you have 2 boy friends, Jill G. came all the way from Buffalo to play with me and help mum pick up poopy papers. All the while she was helpen mum, she was playing with me; not you. ME! She did not play with you did she? You have far away boy friends I have far away shelter friends that come to play with me! Hump! SO There! Possum here: Okay so Anyway mum got some really cool pictures from Miss Lisa and Mr. Peter. They are pictures of the new wall Miss Lisa built in their apartment; Mr. Peter admittedly says building is not his thing. . See mum and Miss Donna D. went to their apartment so they could adopt one of us or more, but mum tolds them that the wall behind the sofa was too short and anyone they took from here would be up and over it in a heart beat! The drop is about 18 feet! Ouch! that would hurt! Heck some of us jump the 29" barriers mum has up so going up on the sofa and on to the 1/2 wall would be cake dribbled with ferretone to us! So Miss Lisa and Mr. Peter took mums suggestion and built the wall up high so we ferrets could not get over it! Mum is trying to figure out how you guys can get to see it because mum is so thrilled with the wall. The pictures came to her on paper not the computer. It is beautiful and mum said it was a brilliant way to keep us from falling. No one is going over that wall now!!! Way to go Lisa and Peter! Arnold and Ferris went to their house to live shortly after the wall was complete. . Suzie Q here: My turn! Mum gots some new kids in. Mum found 2 fur kids on the back step of our house on a Saturday morning in a carrier. No names, no information. So they are called Fred and Ginger, They are cuties. Then Miss Cathy R. went to pick up a little girl that was found by the Riga Town ACO. Her name is Daisy May. Miss Cathy was here when mum got the call from the ACO, Miss Cathy R lives up that way so she said as long as she was going to be back down for the yard sale the next day she would bring her down, So mum gots 3 new kids in the shelter. What do you think Possum we have a pretty long news letter I guess we better close this one and put stuff we did not cover in the September news. Mr. Big might not be able to get this new on the FML if it is much longer. Possum here: sure we better. So to all of your from all of us! Byeeee for now . 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