So - mum was going to have an open house on Saturday February 19th to show off our new digs but the weather decided not to be cooperative so mum moved it to Sunday February 20th - only 3 people from far far away did not get mums message about changing the date so Miss Nicky from Corning - Miss Christine from Auburn and Mr Pete from Ithaca all showed up Saturday afternoon for the open house - Miss Donna from Rochester got here about 3:30 to help mum around the shelter - That was some weather they drove in to get here - mum put on a pot of coffee - Mr Pete opened the box of goodies that Miss Christine brought in - and they all went into the shelter to admire the new cages - Miss Christine was new to the shelter so she got to see fur kids and visit with Miss Nicky and Mr. Pete while mum worked - they all stayed for a couple of hours - Sunday morning the weather was much better so mum sent a message that the open house was on - 14 people showed up to visit and join in the food and fun - Miss Mindy, Mr Dick, Miss Mary B, Miss Iliana, Miss Loana. Mr. Clair, Miss Kathy H. and her friend that mum does not remember his name, Miss Genevieve, her mom Miss Siobhan, a new family that wants to adopt a ferret - 3 children and their dad - mum does not remember their names either but she does remember the sparkle in the eyes of the children when they got to hold and love on us - mum says they have been bitten by the ferret bug - There was tons of food, soda and coffee to drink - Miss Mary B held an auction - she said it seems the things she auctions off get passed around and around by all the folks that help here at the shelter - it does - the stuff gets donated by them to us - we use it for a bit then we pass it on for the auction - so mum says the auction is a round robin - we ferrets got put away early and kept away for most of the open house - mum took 4 barriers down so the humans could move freely - that makes it easy for us to escape - or get stepped on so mum just kept us locked up - she told us she has this full week off so she will give us extra out time in her space for being locked up most of the day Mum says the open house was a success - she was happy so many were still able to come after we had to move the date - thanks everyone for visiting with us and spending time at our shelter open house - We love our new cages - mum loves the new cages and was happy to share the new shelter with everyone - Possum our new store site http://www.notjustforferrets.com/ Newest Shelter Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0GEYL02fnU Shelter Video <http://www.kwflatbed.com/videos/ferretfarm.wmv> Fur kids with new homes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4QDOOjil9A The Giving Effect http://ferretfarm.thegivingeffect.com/ [Posted in FML 6981]