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One of my goals when creating Ferret Cafe, was to offer something more than just a blog journaling the adventures of our ferrets. One of the things I love to do, is browse the web, searching for great sites, and telling people about them. I guess this comes from my years as an about.com guide.
I’d like to include mini site reviews of various ferret sites that I find along the way. Well, this time I cheated. All About Ferrets found me first, so I guess that means, I’m IT.
When I first visited this site, I was immediately attracted to the adorable cartoons scattered about the site. They really add personality to the Web site. Fortunately, they are available as T-Shirts, Mugs, and other ferrety goodies.
This is a wonderful site for ferret enthusiasts, people who are considering getting a pet ferret, and anyone interested in learning more about them. The amount of information here is just amazing. This site should be included in any ferret lover’s list of bookmarks.
I think they did a wonderful job, don’t you? All About Ferrets is definitely a site I’ll be visiting often.
We don't operate an animal shelter, but for some reason the fuzzies keep finding us.
Back in June we found two dirty, infested boys that were left in a small wire mesh cage and brought them home. We were not looking for more ferrets, but how could we not take them home. I knew that Ferrets Unlimited was full, so we kept them.
They have turned out to be great boys, even though it has taken quite a while to get them smelling good, and free of mites, and such.
Today our day started when our son told us the dog (we have a golden retriever mix) was playing with a baby chipmunk. It was pretty much covered with dog slobber and terrified, but appeared unharmed. So we spent most of the day trying to find out what to do with a chipmunk.
Then we gave it food, water, and a safe place to sleep. Since we live with ferrets, we had nothing suitable to put a chipmunk in. We tried a small cat carrier at first, and he slipped right out of the air holes.
I sent my son to his friends houses to see if any of them had an extra hamster cage, and he came home telling me a neighbor had a ferret in the garage in a dirty cage with no food, water, litter, or snugglies.
Well before you know it, we are bringing another one home, because these people were desperate to find her a better home. Another case where a child was expected to take care of a ferret, and failed, so they put the stinky, dirty cage outside until they found a home.
So, here we go again. Our new girl is fairly young, skinny, nippy, has no idea what toys are, or ferretone, or ferret food. Her hair is so thin you can see her skin in patches, and the fur feels like steel wool.
She weighs less than a pound, and her nails were so long they curled. She loves her new home. Even her temporary quarantine cage is 100 times bigger than anything she has ever seen. She has food, clean water, clean bedding, and isn't out in a hot, dirty garage anymore.
Fortunately, the chipmunk perked up after a day feasting on pecans, walnuts, and honey spiked water. He looks about 5-6 weeks old, and old enough to be on his own. We found a chipmunk burrow in our wooded backyard and let him go. He peeked out at us a few times while munching on his treats, and eventually took off into the tunnels.
There is a lot of information online to sort through, regarding the Katrina pet rescue operations. I'll post them here as I find them. Please feel free to add additional pet related links and information.
Humane Society of the US Disaster Relief Fund
The New Orleans craigslist has a pets forum where people are posting information, and trying to connect people willing to foster animals, with animals that need shelter.
The Best Friends Animal Society has information about their Katrina Rescue efforts
Noah's Wish is operating a distaster animal shelter in Slidell, LA
The International Ferret Congress is trying to organize a network to help displaced ferrets.
I'll be trying to keep an updated katrina links page.
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