This is Susie Lee in and with The Ferret & Dove Sanctuary, Inc. calling out for anyone else at all who managed to get a copy of October 12th's "Animal Rescue" which showed a favorable tv article about our Ferret & dove Sanctuary and the critters. What about our copy? Okay, here's what we've got: before it came on where we are at 3:30 a.m., I was testing and trying out many of our old VHS tapes we have recorded over(and over) and not finding anything that would give a half-visible recording, anymore, finally i put some tape over the busted-tab of an already-"FBI"-WARNING-type-recorded movie which happened to be "Entrapment". Got a five-minute test-recording that we could SEE on this and so I left my awakened diabetically partially-blind husband at 2 a.m. to just push the record-button to catch the show. So, naturally, he wakes me up as the show starts and says he can't see that the machine is even on. YIKES! I struggle awake, first dumbly trying to see without my own glasses, naturally can't find the buttons(i'm stupid-tired!:), go get the glasses...Ahh!, Turn the machine off, turn it back on, re-set it, now push "record"...THERE! It sez "rec" and so it's gotta be doing what it says! Wes is looking at the 'counter', "but the counter's not moving", "Not to worry!", i said, we're going to take the machine at its word, it said it's recording, so leave it be." the show is already partway through the first article about a couple who rescue blind dogs and have horses. No ferrets yet. Next article, rescuing a draft horse from a well...good one, too! One of those miracle-rescues. Then, after commercials...THERE!, "Ferrets and friends...", Pensacola, Florida! Ferrets being held, being happy! Cages being fixed and fiddled-with, dove chick being cuddled,ferrets playing!, back to the kids all holding ferrets (that i had put all our better-behaved ferrets into their hands and the camera-guy did a lot of panning) WHY!, There's WES wearing his Oxford Ferret Rescue t-shirt! Yeah, way to go!...and then they used up all the beta-tape footage, re-used some of it to make the article last five minutes from a three-minute tape, and it's done. I go back to bed for another hour (gotta get back up and feed my fuzzie-wuzzles, soon) and then Wes tells me they mention us again in re-capping all the items of this show. Well, hey!, that's NICE of them, i think. But wes has plans for getting this scratchy, belated recording to a DVD or several...it's not the greatest quality, i will have to admit, and I've already told out why. Today, later, i hope to get Wes back from the hospital where he went for carotid-artery-surgery to remove a huge clot. Doc called from the hospital after the surgery was done and said Wes is fine. (repeated himself 3 times. i better find out he really IS "fine" or I'm going to know what-for with the entire staff, there.) Have an adult volunteer coming over to our house in a few minutes to help with the harder-to-reach cages and I'm meanwhile feeding and letting loose ferrets to play. Time to git. My 10 minute sit-down break is all used up :) http://www.angelfire.com/theforce/ferret_rescuer/index.html [Posted in FML 6124]