Sarah Senior Reporter Daisy Cub Reporter March 2013 Hello out there in cyber land, Sarah and Daisy sending a reminder that anyone that gets our news has already received a registration form to fill out; if Miss Brie does not have it back by April 1 you will be removed from our mailing list. Some of you have let Mum know you can not open the attachment, just drop Miss Brie an email and she will send one out to you snail mail. Miss Brie is getting this together so if something happens to our Mum Miss Brie has a way of reaching you to let you know something has gone very wrong. SOOOOOOOOOO if you no longer want to receive our news letters updates and/or special rants then do nothing, if you do please get that form off to Miss Brie before April 1, 2013 you can reach her here [log in to unmask] Sarah Here: Oh Daisy did you see how many stamps came in the mail for us? Our Stamp campaign http://www.ferretfarm.org/PossumRants.html was a huge success so much so that all the folks that sent them saved Mum enough money to buy us 2 - 50# shelter bags of TF! We have the most awesome shelter friends in the world thank you for helping Mum take care of us. Daisy Here: little Maggie the newest fur kid to come though our doors had to be kept away from the shelter and us established fur kids until she went to see our Favorite Doc. She got her hurt sticks and check up so Mum got her settled into the shelter. Maggie got her first day in the play areas; the morning after she slept in her new cage. You can see more about Maggie here http://www.ferretfarm.org/ferrets/Maggie2/Maggie.html Miss Marcia (My far away mom) and Miss Donna came to help, they got lots done. Miss Donna kept up with cages; while Mum and my far away mom took care of our play areas. They worked on play area papers; my far away mom picked up dirty papers Mum laid clean ones down. My far away mom took me with her from room to room; I had so much fun chasing after her and climbing the things I have no business climbing,(so Mum says) I pooped out about 1 crawled into the blanket and went to sleep, leaving my far away mom to finish things up without me. Sarah Here: Miss Marcia stripped the play pen where Gracie and her brothers had been, Miss Donna stripped the cage they had been living in while Mum set up the sick pen for them up in her space. Miss Marcia left about 2:45; she lives 2 hours away from here so she needs to leave earlier than Miss Donna who left a couple of hours later. Little Gracie was up eating and doing better now that she is up in the sick pen, Mum can pay closer attention to them there and it gives them more room than a cage but less room than a play area. All 3 have a hard time walking on the tile floors now, so the sick pen allows them better mobility. Easier on Mum too, she can clean it up more often with them in the sick pen. Little Marshmallow got a valentine package in the mail from her far away mom, Michelle <http://www.ferretfarm.org/ferrets/Marshmallow_SnowyBowie/Marshmallow_SnowyBowie.html> Miss Tori took Stevie home to love and care for, she said Stevie and Nora were a bit closer than Nora was comfortable with; one of them was dooking before Miss Tori picked Stevie up to put him back in his pen. Sarah Here: The interview we were asked to participate in is up on the small animal channel <http://www.smallanimalchannel.com/ferrets/ferret-behavior/ferrets-in-the-family.aspx> Daisy is the star of Mum's part of the interview, showing off her talents on how she gets into places she has no business getting into! Miss Donna came again she and Mum spent the day cleaning up after us fur kids. Mum worked on our cages and kitchen Miss Donna worked on play areas with her far away boy Dancer following her from room to room, like Daisy does with her far away mom. Dancer was ready for a nap so he was left in the ferret room; while Miss Donna headed to clean the next room. Miss Donna played with me Sarah while she cleaned up the play room where I was dancing and playing. Miss Donna left early that day; she had plans to see a movie with friends at 4:30. At night time soup time Mum started putting second shift away and getting the remainder of the last shift up. Dancer was missing! Mum got all of us fur kids put away, meds done and started moving the rest of us into the rooms she wanted us in for the night. Mum had decided Dancer would go to the dining room, Mum could not find Dancer, his cage was tagged ferret room because that is where he had been and Mum had not yet found him, keeping the tag on the cage helps Mum remember where she last had/saw him, then Mum puts the Missing in Action (MIA) tag on the cage too that way she remembers he is missing. Mum went upstairs to think about and run though he mind all the things she had done trying to figure out where Dancer could have gotten too. Mum gets so upset when one of us gets lost! Mum went back down stairs, went out to the porch to search in the trash bag Miss Donna took out. All our shelter helpers count heads before removing a trash bag so Mum was pretty sure he was not out there but when one of us is missing she looks in all the places they could be even if it is just remotely possible. Mum pulled all the blankets out of all the sleep places on the porch in case he was able to wiggle out of the trash bag. NO Dancer. Mum went back into the ferret room to check all the bottom cages she had cleaned and closed up in case he had snuck in while she was cleaning them. NOPE! Daisy Here: To say that by this time Mum was getting frantic is an understatement! She looked in the food closet; in all the tubes etc. She crawls on the floor looking under things, gets on the step ladder to look on top of things. When Mum had eliminated all those places she starts from the beginning to work her way around the house to each play area one more time. Mum stepped into the dining room and there stood Dancer looking up at her; with "what's wrong Mum" look on his face. Mum must have put him in there, which is the only way he could have gotten there but she did not remember doing it! When the tag on his cage still had ferret room on it that told her she had not yet found and moved him. She moved him but not the tag! UGH Mum sure can be forgetful at times! Mum hugged Dancer, put her face in his fur and told him how happy she was to have found him. Then another night Mum was shutting down the shelter, she moved us fur kids about; not thinking she put me Daisy in the play room, Jenkins in the play pen - it took less than 30 min for Mum to hear screaming coming from down stairs. Mum hurriedly followed the distress calls and found I had gotten into the play pen and was beating up on Jenkins. Like I said I climb and get into places most ferrets don't, that's because I am one smart ferret. HUMP! I got put back in the dining room for the night. So far I have not figured out how to get out of that room but give me time! Miss Jackie called to ask if she and her granddaughter could come over. Jackie's Hannah is 5 she wanted to see us ferrets. 2 new folks stopped by, one of the ladies has a ferret. They saw us on Facebook, so Sheilla was correct that it is a good way to get our fuzzy faces out there. Mum sent them home with lots of ferret information from all of us, Miss Jackie and Miss Donna helped Mum educate them. The new lady did not know a lot about us fur kids so when she left here she knew much more. Sarah Here: Miss Tori came to help get all us kids treated with Revolution, cages caught up kids moved. Miss Tori brought Steve for Mum to look at; they found a mass in his abdomen he flinched when Mum touched it. Tori made an appointment to get Stevie in to see our favorite Doc. Mum was on the phone with Miss Tori and our Favorite Doc they decided to let Stevie go. He had huge prostate issue and his bladder was so full that doc had to express him to get it emptied; Doc said it was the size of a soft ball. Stevie left for Rainbow Bridge that day. Miss Tori made it easier to find our shelter calendar it is now in the header of our front page. If you want to know what we are up to, what events are coming up just check out our calendar http://www.ferretfarm.org/About.html#calendar Miss Brie has set up a forum for anyone that wants to go there called lffrs.freeforums.org "Poems, songs, and stories all about ferrets, come join us at our feeforum. What do you think Daisy, all our notes are gone I think it is time close this news and say so long for now. Until next month Sara and Daisy <http://www.ferretfarm.org> [Posted in FML 7734]