The Biggest Little Ferret Shelter & Northern Nevada Ferret Network Monthly Newsletter

Members of the Biggest Little Ferret Shelter and the Northern Nevada Ferret Network write this newsletter.

The NNFN, Northern Nevada Ferret Network is a group of ferret enthusiasts who get together and talk ferret talk, how to raise money, how to spend money, ideas, how to get the needed education about ferrets out there, etc. 

The BLFS, Biggest Little Ferret Shelter is a no-kill ferret shelter where no ferret is denied the right to be a ferret.  www.renoferrets.org

New volunteers always welcome!  The NNFN is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

To contact us email redferret4@yahoo.com Join our Yahoo group at nnfn@yahoogroups.com or visit www.nnfn.net.
October 2004 Issue
Hewoo, dis is Buddy.
 
I gotz more to tells you. More big words. Dis month I was shivverin like I cold. I waz eatin gud, and pwayin wit my fwends, but I waz cold. Mommy take me to see Dr. Katie again. She had to poke me to see why I cold. She tell mommy I gotz urinayry trac infecshun. Dat is when you gotz des little bugz called acinetobacter calcoaceticus - baumannii swimmin round in da piddle.  Der is medicin to make da bugz go away, I gotz to take it for long time. I not feelz cold now. I gotz to get poked next week to be shur all da bugz goin away. I letz you know next month.
 
Luv from yur fren
 
Buddy
Do much online shopping? If so, go to www.DonationTree.com, join as a new member (it’s free)and use their links to visit your favorite online stores.  As long as they are on the list, you can support the Biggest Little Ferret Shelter with every online purchase you make!  The only catch is that you MUST do your shopping through the Donation Tree site to get the rebates.  Check it out. Donation Tree averages double the rebates that iGive does, but iGive has a few stores that Donation Tree does not (such as eBay). Check it out, it only takes a minute to join but the results will be worth it, after all, it's for the fuzzies right?  
Rest assured all proceeds go to helping ferrets J

Rainbow bridge:

 

Spirit – whose name says it all.

Basil & Frodo – who both got a second chance and one more year. And Gypsy who left us too soon.

 

It is never easy to lose a fuzzy, we get very attached in an extremely short amount of time. Commemorating our loved furry ones sometimes helps to ease the pain, and sometimes it just makes us cry more tears, but either way, it helps us to move forward with out them.

Spirit

 

Spirit came into our lives in the spring of 1999. She was only a little over a year old, and in this short amount of time, we were already her 3rd home. She hadn’t been abused, but she definitely wasn’t receiving the attention, time and space that she needed. It took a few  months, but we finally persuaded her previous owner to let her come with us, as we had other ferrets, and more time and space for her. She was extremely happy and very healthy for the next several years, experiencing many adventures.

 

Last July, she went in for her checkup, along with some of her brothers and sisters. The vet said Spirit was the healthiest of the bunch. She was almost 6 years old by then, and still not showing any signs of illness. Amazing since most of her younger friends had either had surgery already, or were scheduled for the next month.

 

Sadly, that good fortune was short lived. One evening in February I felt a small, hard lump on each side of Spirit’s abdomen in the exact same place. I took her to the vet, and after some blood work and an abdominal ultrasound she was diagnosed with Lymphoma. It was such a shock since she had been our healthiest only 7 months before.

 

As the months went by, even though her cancer was progressing, she remained the same old Spirit, full of life and love. Every day she would assure us that no matter how she looked physically; she wasn’t ready to go yet. She was always covering our faces with kisses, constantly staying a half step behind us and trying to escape out the front door or into the garage, and begging for her soup or a Yogi. She always had such a sparkle in her eye, and despite her swollen glands, a little pep in her step. We knew Yogies were bad for her, but they were her favorite treat. The way we saw it, her cancer was terminal and it was just a matter of time, so why not let her indulge?

 

Spirit stayed with us as long as she possibly could, but the cancer finally got the best of her. When her eyes lost their sparkle, and she no longer wanted her Yogies, we knew the time had come.   We helped Spirit cross the Rainbow Bridge on Saturday, September 25, 2004. She was only 6 ½ years old. She is now young again, healthy and free of discomfort, frolicking with all the other kids who have crossed over. Now she too awaits the rest of us to join them at the bridge. 

 

Char & Dante

And what does a shelter need? Here’s my wish list, please note that I share some donations with Ferrets with Soule shelter, so what you donate will help double the fuzzies!

 

Blankets and towels  or… fabric (fleece preferred) so we can sew our own!

Treats, treats and more treats.

Food - Totally ferret/Pro plan kitten chicken flavor/Mazuri/Pathvalley farms/8 in 1 Ultimate. 

Laundry Soap

Toys toys toys.

Litter (yesterdays news or generic brand).

Paper towels and cleaning supplies.  Ferretone, ferretvite, Nutrical

Paper and ink to print this newsletter

$$$ For Vet costs, you can donate directly to Carson Valley Veterinary Hospital

775-782-3693 under Northern Nevada Ferret Network.

And most important on our wish list…  a home for all the fuzzy kids!

 

You can also support us by purchasing our sleep sacks and hammocks!  Sometimes cages too.  Or you can donate to the shelter pay pal account redferret4@yahoo.com
If you would like to donate to the vet costs, there is an account set up under Northern Nevada Ferret Network, just call them at 775-782-3693.  Note that donations are tax deductible.
News!
Hewwo,
 
Duz da shelter take in aboozed an battard pwincesses?
 
I iz lookin for a pwace to stay.  Yesterdayz I was aboozed agin, den battard too.  I was putz in da sink an neerly dwowned.  My hooman callz it *baff time*.  I callz it abooz. 
 
Den da hooman cleanz my earz.
 
DEYNOTDURTY!  I iz a pwincess.  Den comz da nail twimmin.  I a Pwincess, I gotz ta have long purty nailz.  Az you can tellz, I'm vewwy aboozed.  I nedz to leev beforz I be killt.
 
I havz me berry own hammy an sleepz sak.  Neez zoop, datz hard to carryz.  Youz gotz dat?  Duz you send Limo to pikz me up?
 
Pwincess Parriz

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