Pittsburgh area ferret friends! The Three Rivers Ferret Council needs your help in Fertober! We have exciting events scheduled almost every weekend. If you like to talk ferret and show off your friendly ferrets - please consider helping out for a shift or two at one or more of these upcoming events. Friday, October 10th - Barb & Chris will be setting up for the Pet Expo at the convention center in downtown Pittsburgh. We would appreciate at least one more helper. If you are available between noon and 4pm on Friday, please let us know. Saturday, October 11th - Pittsburgh Pet Expo at the convention center in downtown Pittsburgh. The TRFC will have a booth to educate the public on ferrets. Helpers are encouraged to bring friendly ferrets to show off to the public (deaf ferrets sometimes work best for this event as it is VERY loud with announcements and dogs barking, etc.). HUNDREDS of people swarm this expo at the same time, be prepared to talk ferret :o) The store is not set up at this event, however we do sell 50/50 raffle tickets to try to recoup the cost of the booth. The expo runs from 10am - 6pm on Saturday. We are given admission tickets and vendor passes, so you should not have to pay for admission (just parking). Ideally, we need at least 2 people at the booth at all times. If you can help for a few hours (or more), please contact me. Sunday, October 12th - Pet Expo is open from 11am - 5pm and there is NO Steeler game this day. Please see above for more information or you can check out their website - www.pittsburghpetexpo.com Saturday, October 18th - Ferret Awareness Day at Petco in the Waterfront (Homestead). Petco is sponsoring a ferret costume contest! Club members Shannon & Dave Moore are organizing this event (thanks guys!!) along with the Petco manager. There will be candy for the kids (human variety) and prizes for the best costumes. This event is from 10am - 4pm and will be good practice for the clubs costume contest on Sunday :o) Shannon & Dave would appreciate some helpers to educate the public on proper ferret care. Please contact us if you can help. Sunday, October 19th - Bi-monthly meeting of the TRFC. This meeting will be a costume contest for the ferrets - although humans are encouraged to dress up too, we will only give prizes to the ferrets. We will host a halloween party for the humans. Join us for a relaxing day with ferrets as the main topic! Our Pampered Fuzzy store will be set up with over 300 items to purchase. There also is a small raffle of goodies and don't miss out - a new meeting activity - a door prize raffle! Each person that attends will be given a door prize raffle ticket. You do NOT have to be a member to come to the meetings, everyone is invited.. ferrets included. Meetings are held from 1pm - 4pm. See our website for more info and directions. www.3rfc.org Saturday, October 25th - The TRFC will be at the Dooktoberfest AFA Ferret Show in Frederick, MD. Please stop by to visit our table and pick up some goodies for your ferret friends. We have unique and new items along with the necessities of ferret ownership. Again, if you can help at any of these events - even for just a few hours, we would really appreciate it. Contact Chris at 412-915-1694 or [log in to unmask] Thanks, Chris Sayne Three Rivers Ferret Council, Inc. a 501(c)3 non-profit organization PO Box 5602 Pittsburgh, PA 15207-0602 412-431-2830 (voice mail) [log in to unmask] www.3rfc.org [Posted in FML 6106]