Sarah Senior Reporter Daisy Cub Reporter September 2013 Sarah here: Oh my another wild month at the shelter! It has been nuts around here! Miss Mary Ellen came to spend the weekend with us and her far away fur kids - the pink ladies http://www.ferretfarm.org/ferrets/CNY_Business/CNY_Business.html and lord Jenkins http://www.ferretfarm.org/ferrets/Lord_Jenkins_III/Lord_Jenkins_III.html Miss Donna and Mr. Paul have been here to keep our property looking awesome. Mr. Paul is pretty handy to have around he is big and tall so he helped get the tin roofing up to Mum (she was up on the shed roof) so Mum could secure it. It blew off in one of the big wind storms we had this summer. Then he helped Mum get the attic stairs down in our new activity center. They are very big and heavy stairs so it was so good to have Mr. Paul help Mum so they did not fall on her head when it was unlatched. Miss Loana came for dinner the weekend Miss Mary Ellen was here, they were all having dinner when Mum got a phone call from a lady that said she was at the door... Mum had forgotten they were coming to see the shelter and us fur kids. OOPS! Daisy here: We had 2 sets of new families in to see us fur kids the families that stopped were nice. One family left saying nope ferrets are not for us, the second family mom and her 15 yr old daughter (the ones Mum forgot were coming) wanted to touch and hold everyone of us. Munch was to come to camp for a few days but he left for Rainbow Bridge on Saturday before he was to arrive on the followingWednesday. His family brought us all of his things, they told Mum several years ago they were not going to get another ferret once Munch was gone. Fly High Munch you will be missed! Miss Donna Z stopped by with a car load of papers for us. Thanks Miss Donna Z! Mum and our volunteers have been working hard to transform what used to be our pet supply store into an extension of the shelter as an activity center. Mum wants to set it up so if school kids want to write a report or learn more about us fuzz butts there will be tons of information right at our center. Walls and shelving have been moved out table and chairs moved in. We think it is going to be really cool when they get it done! Mum says it is going to be a ferret free zone! Yeah like we believe that line! Sarah here: Stop that Daisy! Mum went to spend some time with her 2 legged furless grand kids, she took stuff so they could help Mum put some wagons together for our next Christmas in October event. http://www.ferretfarm.org/events/OctXmas2013.html We are having a wagon train contest. We shelter kids get to be in the contest too! We can't wait. Mum has talked so much about us and what she does here at the shelter to the humans that she works with that Miss Kris elementary school principal, Mr. Matt High School principal and middle school teacher (Mum can't remember her name ) stopped to see what all the fuss was about. Miss Ili came to help Mum get us looking awesome. This place was sparkling when they walked in for the tour. Mum had the center pretty well picked up, Miss Ili did more to make it look even better, it is obvious that we are under construction. They were all pretty surprised at the size and scope of our facility and even more so when Mum said this was the love of her life. One of them said oh you poor thing! Mum made sure real fast that she is doing exactly what she wants to be doing NOTHING poor about it! Miss Kathy and Miss Marilyn are back home in N.M. Miss Sheilla and Mr. Malcolm came up from Brooklyn to visit, they got here when Mum was on the phone with Miss Sue B. When they walked in Mum had several barriers down and we fur kids were running all over the place. Miss Sue's call came in while Mum was shifting us from room to room so the call stopped Mum in her tracks. Miss Sheilla helped Mum get us kids moved and the cages caught up while Mr. Malcolm hung out with Daisy. They stayed until about 2:30 they wanted to get back into Brooklyn before the holiday traffic started to move. Daisy here: Mum spoke with Miss Amy the manager of Petco in Mattydale NY on the phone, they had a ferret workshop weekend coming up and Miss Amy really wanted us to be there to set up. Mum told her she and the volunteers that live up that way were discussing and working on it. Dr. Charlie, Master Reilly and Miss Patty made it happen! <https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.550550181683761.1073741837.370639603008154> Thanks you guys for helpen us out! Miss Ili and Mr. Bob dropped off the remaining screens that are all now covered in hardware cloth ready to go up. Mr. Bob B did an awesome job on them, Mum wants to screen in our front porch so Mum has a porch she can sit on. They not only donated the time and talent they donated the money to purchase what was needed to cover the screens to make them ferret proof. NOW COME ON do you really think Mum is going to go out on that porch to sit WITHOUT one or two of us to keep her company?? Not happening Mum is back to work on the Big Yellow Thingy. Our last DMK kid left for Rainbow Bridge, Mum moved Sho into that cage. My far away mom Miss Marcia came to help and hang out with me, I went to take a nap before she left I was so pooped she wore me out! The two girls Mum was taking care of for Ontario County Humane Society are now officially shelter kids. The judge did not want to send them back to the poopy place they were removed from. Now they need a far away family to sponsor them. http://www.ferretfarm.org/ferrets/Darby_Lucy/Darby_Lucy.html Sarah here: Mum found these really awesome clips to use to hang our hammocks and bungalow's that make it easier for her to put them up and take them down, so Snowy's far away mom got us more so Mum could put them in all our cages. They are tiny enough to get into the spaces she needs them in, strong enough to hold a lot of us at once and little enough that we won't even consider trying to put our heads into them. Thanks Miss Lauri F. for helpen Mum get more for us. Miss Trish W. Jeffery's far away mom got Jeffery and his crew 2 new floor pads that fit perfectly in their horizontal cage, Miss Leslie Sho's far away mom got Sho a sweet looking bungalow for his new cage! We have awesome shelter friends and volunteers. Well Daisy I think we are done reporting the news, there are no more notes at the bottom of the page. You got anything else to say before we conclude this month's news? Daisy here: only that we hope to see you in October for our Christmas in October event. Until next month Sarah and Daisy [Posted in FML 7910]