Sarah Senior Reporter Daisy Cub Reporter August 2013 Sarah here: Ooooohhhh Weeeee somebody needs to stop the world so we can get off! Summer is just whizzing by! Me and Daisy can not keep up with all that is going on around here! Our ears are ringing and eyes are crossing just trying to keep up with what needs to be reported. Daisy here: Oh PA-leeeaaassse! Sara you are such a drama queen! It has not been any busier here at the shelter than any other time the only difference is Snowy Bowie's far away mom Miss Lauri came to visit us in July from MN. Snowy got to spend time with his far away mom for a whole week. Miss Brie picked Miss Lauri up at the Rochester airport; Mum took her back to the Rochester airport a week later. Just like I get to do each month when my far away mom Marcia comes to help and hang out with me. My far away mom and Miss Lauri were here at the same time so they got to meet each other. They both helped Mum get some things done Miss Lauri mixed food for us, and my far away mom cleaned up and replenished food and water stations in all the play areas. Sarah here: << said with a pout >> Daisy you are so mean to me! Why can't you be nice? I am going to tell some news and ignore you! Mum has been really busy because it is summertime there are a lot of humans that want to surrender their ferrets to Mum. We are filled to the gills so Mum has had to do some creative maneuvering. Mum got two calls from two different animal control folks any fur kids that come from animal control get to come to the shelter no matter what! Mum makes room but at the time we got the calls we had room for both sets of fur girls. There is Darby and Lucy and Thelma and Louise. Miss Marcia picked up and delivered the fur kids from the Oswego animal control people, they met Daisy's far away mom in Syracuse to hand them over to us. Mum was told they have been brought to them for a second time and the girls have been passed around to many homes so they are here with us. Thelma and Louise will stay unless they pick a family to love, we fur kids get to pick the humans not the other way around. Mum says they have paid their dues they get to have a stable home with lots of food, warm blankies and tons of love from all our shelter volunteers. Miss Marcia named them because they got to animal control with no names. The other two girls came from Ontario County AC they are doing well settling in. Miss Jackie took Darby and Lucy to Doc for check ups and shots Darby got an implant because she was bare naked when she got here. She is getting fur now. When they got here they weighed 1# 9 oz and 1# 6 oz they were SKINNY! Mum has them fattened up; they are both pushing 2# although Mum says some of that may be the winter weight like some of us are already getting. Mum calls Lucy a chunky monkey. Mum named them because they did not have names when they got to animal control. Miss Jackie took Sho to OFD for an X-Ray on his leg, doc needed to see if the bone was all better and if so OFD was taking the metal pin out of his leg. Miss Jackie and Mr Bob took him, stayed with him, doc got the pin out and then they brought him home to Mum. Mum got word that 2 fur kids were in need of a home from Long Island we were full by then so Mum got in touch with Mr Pete and Miss Lisa to see if they could take these two fur kids in. Just as always Mr Pete and Miss Lisa came though for Mum and took Bear and Milo in Another request came in from Spring Farm Cares that a ferret had been found out running around and needed to come to Naples. Once again Mum contacted a shelter friend Miss Wendy and asked her if she could help with this little one. Miss Wendy got in touch with Miss Joanne and told her she would pick the little guy up Parker is living with Miss Wendy. http://www.ferretfarm.org/ferrets_helped/Parker/Parker.html Once again a family in need of finding a place for their fur kids a business of 5 contacted Mum to see if we could take them. We were still full, so Mum asked the family if she could work it out; once their family crisis was over would they consider taking their fur kids back? The family was thrilled to hear there may be a way to keep their fur kids so Mum reached out to Miss Stephanie and Mr Tom to see if they would foster these kids until the family got back on their feet. Both Tom and Stephanie agreed to help Mum help this family. WOW Mum sure did do some creative maneuvering to get all these fur kids a place to go Daisy here: Hey! Hey! Hey are you going to leave some news for me to report? Miss Tori came to meet Snowy's far away mom Miss Lauri, Miss Stacie dropped in so she got to meet her too. Miss Stacie brought Mum food out of her garden, Mum loves fresh veggies. She makes one mean veggie casserole Miss Lauri was surprised at how good it was. Miss Stacie helped Mum get a new AC unit put into one of the play area windows, anonymous giver to us fur kids. Miss Tori and Mum got all the stacks of papers Miss Donna Z brought into the shelter. Miss Donna Z brought them when Mum was not home so she put them in the garage Mum and Miss Tori got them onto the porch we use to hang out on then from there they got them into the shelter. (It was too hot to use and watch the stars anyway). Oh man you need to see the story that Miss Mary Ellen wrote about the stars <http://lffrs.freeforums.org/a-night-under-the-stars-by-mary-ellen-byrne-t216.html> Miss Ili and Miss Donna D have been here to help. Miss Donna D on the outside Miss Ili on the inside, we have a new shelter friend Mr Paul he comes with Miss Donna D to help keep our property looking awesome. Milo went to Rainbow Bridge Mum found him gone when she got home from work one afternoon, she thought she was going to have to take Big Foot (DMK) to have our favorite doc (OFD) to help him cross to Rainbow Bridge in the morning but when she got him up in the morning he was bright eyed and ready to get up for soup so Mum says she has no idea what was up with him the night before but what ever it was it passed. Mum was doing the happy dance for sure! Sarah here: Mum took Miss Lauri over to meet Miss Jackie and Mr Bob they live on Honeoye Lake so the 4 of them sat next to the lake to visit, 2 ducks came up to where they were sitting Mum found out that Miss Jackie has made friends with them Miss Jackie has named them Fred and Ethel they will eat right out of her hands, Mum wanted to try too do that too Ethel took food out of Mum's hands. Miss Iliana was here to help catch us up then she helped hold Sho so Mum could get the 2 stitches out of the bottom of his foot. He is done with his broken leg and invasive surgeries. Miss Patty was asking Mum questions about deaf ferrets, when Mum explained to Miss Patty how to tell if her new boy was deaf it dawned on Mum that Spike might very well be deaf. Spike is always the last to wake up when Mum is getting them up, he is always the last to come out of where they were sleeping, and usually Mum must wake him. Spike is the one that generally gets left behind and ends up MIA. Spike being deaf is a good explanation to why Mum has trouble finding him when she needs to. Mum could not find Fred one morning, she found him in the cupboard. He must have crawled in there when Mum was putting dishes away when she went looking for him she remembered she had the cupboard open, sure enough he was sleeping in the colander he looked at Mum as if to say about time you got me out of here! Daisy here: Me and Sarah want say hats off to Miss Sheilla for keeping our Facebook page going https://www.facebook.com/LakeroadFerretFarm Miss Tori for keeping our web site going http://www.ferretfarm.org/ she is doing some pretty cool things with that lately, Miss Priscilla for keeping our Petfinder page going http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/NY559.html Miss Brie for keeping our forum page going http://lffrs.freeforums.org/ these ladies keep our shelter friends up on what is going on around here; things like new kids coming in, kids going to new 4-ever homes and kids going to rainbow bridge. Mum says there is no way she would be able to take care of that stuff and take care of us too so thank you ladies for keeping those sites going so Mum can give us the 100% attention we so richly deserve. Mum and Miss Ili set up at Petco in Canandaigua for an education day on July 13 http://www.ferretfarm.org/Outreach.html they took Fred, George and Darien. Mum and Miss Ili are going to set up at Tractor Supply in Canandaigua on August 17th, we have been invited to go to the Petco in Mattydale NY but that has not been scheduled yet. We have our Christmas in October 12th and open house for National Shelter week on November 9th We have had campers in and out all summer Miss Susann T. brought her fur kids; Mr. Julio T. brought his fur kid and Miss Janette brought Stitch! There are two more families bring their fur kids to camp this week. The Principe fur kids (former shelter kids) and the Denk fur kid (a kid Mum helped to find a new 4-ever home) Miss Sue B. has our interview graphic done, Miss Tori has the page up and running me and Sarah have done some interviews and will continue to ask you humans out there that help Mum take care of us to allow us to interview you. If you have not been asked don't get your tail in a bunch we will get to you! Mum is allowing us to do one interview a month. http://www.ferretfarm.org/Interviews.html Sara Here: Mum, Miss Brie, Miss Tori and Miss Ili all went to Brockport to do a home visit for Hammy and Pickles, Mum is trying to train our volunteers around the state to be able to do home visits for her so she does not need to take time away from us. They got to see how Mum does it; Mum gets on the floor to see things from our perspective, the things she finds that we could get into. When they got done we were pretty sure the mom was not so sure ferrets were going to work out in her home. She had that look of 2 dogs, 2 furless kids a full time job now 2 ferrets? Mum calls it the "not in my life time look" Chip road up with Mum to Brockport so Miss Tori could take him home with her, she adopted him. Oh boy did the 4 Rochester boys give Mum a start! Mum had put them in the play room for their out time; they were running wild up and down the tubes to the top of the cages where Mum built the safety boxes for sleeping. Mum did not pay much attention to them until she came into the room from the other play area and looked up. There were 3 of the 4 on top of the highest cage in the coroplast box they were jumping so that they looked like popping pop corn. Mum stood stock still holding her breath because they were jumping so high she thought they were going to jump over the 4" ledge she put up to keep them from falling out. Each time they jumped they got closer to that ledge. Once they got a glimpse of Mum standing there they came bounding down the tube to meet her on the floor. Mum immediately took them to the dining room. Mum thought for sure she was going to have a kid or kids with broken backs. Okay Daisy we have all the notes Mum left for us covered, Mr BIG may have to hold this news up from the FML for a day or two because it is so long. We had a lot of news to tell this month. When you can Mr BIG - thanks! So for this month enjoy the rest of your summer Sarah and Daisy [Posted in FML 7874]