The Wherret Ferrets Shelter was just getting its number down to almost no adoptable rescue ferrets, but of course that all changed instantaneously. This weekend we are getting in 11 ferrets from some shoddy little breeder somebody heard about - she was selling off her ferrets for about $20.00 a piece, and still having no luck finding them homes. She asked a friend to post it on a Vancouver For Sale newsgroup, which somebody then forwarded on to me. I e-mailed the woman who posted it for the breeder, and she asked me to please, please call this woman and try to get them. Seems the ferrets are outside in uncovered cages, and the breeder had casually mentioned that she wasn't sure they would survive in those cages all winter. So I called her yesterday and we made a deal to buy them all, something the shelter cannot afford but one comment she made clinched it. She said she couldn't afford to spay them, and couldn't breed them anymore because by now they were all related. But the kicker was when she said her daughter had brought one of the kits in and she hadn't realized they were getting so big. "Guess I haven't been out to see them for a few days" she said. Same woman has a number of puppies and kittens for sale too. So, B.C. area ferret lovers, if you're in the market for a fuzzy, please consider us. The new gang consists of 3 adults and the remainders are kits, all sables and albinos. The adults will go out spayed/neutered, the kits will go out with a spay/neuter contract and certificate. And here I thought I was lucky, being down to a mere 25 fuzzies in the house. Oh it never ends. We have a few other ferrets for adoption too, and would really like to find them homes. Two were dropped off for boarding about 3 months ago, and just the other day the owner called and said "I want to pay up and I want you to out them up for adoption." They were 9 and 14 weeks when she dropped them off, and they are both wonderful fuzzy beans. Remember - we've got a lot to choose from! Sheena [log in to unmask] Wherret Ferrets Halfway House and Ferretry Ferret Association of Greater Vancouver [Posted in FML issue 1703]