It is amazing how quiet this information has been kept but had to do with the court system here than anything else. By now Global has lost the original case as well as their appeal. All week there have been organizations going in and picking up their groups. Poor hedgehogs had 750 originally with a bunch PG, over 1500 hamsters were there when I left, different breeds of them but they #'d over that. Frogs galore. And, of course, you had to be registered with SPCA to get them and had to sign contracts none of the animals would be released in the wild. We got the 21 ferrets. Every report we had said they were vicious. BOY, yes, they were but it didn't take that long for them to start settling down. By that first evening, we were able to name them, do ID sheets, cage cards, trim nails, fill out their permanent record sheets, and give distemper shots........they have already been microchipped with a German chip which we are attempting to run down information if this was an American company the chips were sold to or if these ferrets come from Germany. Then yesterday, it was a revolving door here........ears were cleaned, all were taken out 2 or 3 at a time..........and massaged and handled and played with. There are still 4 that don't want to just bite your hand, they want on the chest where they can rip your heart out. They twist and squirm and you can't hold them down with a scruff as wild as they are, have to cover them with a towel and wear welding gloves. Wouldn't hurt to have safety glasses on too. Faces fascinate them All are in wonderful shape - which they weren't when received by SPCA. We donated Mazuri and that is what they were on from the time of the seizure. Now they are fat, sassy with beautiful silky coats.....don't know if it was the breeding or the food but they are all beautiful, settling in nicely, and its so exciting to see them take all their anger out of the crocheted Easter eggs, that first night I couldn't sleep for the noise they made but no egg was damaged in this experiment. I HOPE I mailed by snail mail Thank You cards with pictures of the Christmas gifts of beautiful eggs and home made sleep sacks. I wrote the letters but at this age, I just can't remember putting a stamp on the envelop much else mailing them. It so happens, these ferrets are the ones getting the benefit of those gifts as they are segregated across the house from the other ferrets. They will be going into the vet Tues for ADV testing, vet exam and rabies shots. This weekend there are more people than I can count coming to handle them and it looks like it will be almost one on one. THANK GOODNESS we have the people and resources here to help these darlings as everyone is on board with this thing. THANK YOU to SOS who is going to support the ADV testing. We have the people and the equipment to house and care for these but we certainly could use some help with financing the rabies and health exams. If you can donate a few dollars, it would help us tremendously. We would like to see SOS reimbursed for their expenditure too as they sure came through for us on the Rainbow Exotic ferrets from 2 years back. Our vet bill normally runs $1800 to $2000 EVERY month. That is with us paying for most of the drugs separately plus the distemper vaccines, and the microchipping. We have a huge # of older and adrenal ferrets turned in where we feel honored for the foster homes who will give them a second chance at life. For this we pay their medical up keep for life. Even a small thing like these 21 costing for their shots can hurt us big time. If you feel you can, you could make a payment direct to our vet by calling 972 252 0800 - they can charge it on your card or go to our website and either mail a check or use PayPal or even contact SOS to help them finance this venture so they will be able to help another such rescue. If anyone would care to see a video of these kids learning to play or pictures of some of them, write me direct at [log in to unmask] Millie and The Texas Ferret Lovers Rescue www.txferretrescue.org [Posted in FML 6600]