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Sunday, July 27, 2003
Maryland Rescue Update:WARNING! Graphic pictures of the rescue: http://www.pooflinger.com/hagerstown/
Saturday, July 26, 2003
FERRET RESCUEThis is a cross-post about a major East Coast ferret rescue.Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:31:53 -0700 From: Barbara Clay Subject: WASHINGTON CO, MARYLAND BREEDER RESCUE Dear All, By all accounts, this season has been a rough one for all shelters. I have worked closely for years with my sister shelters on the East Coast, and I know first-hand that we all are currently working to full capacity. However, Friday morning Kim Sikorski and I picked up 62 ferrets. 24 hrs earlier there were 76 ferrets, and the breeder is being held accountable by Washington County Animal Control [in Maryland] as to their whereabouts. Thanks to Rob and Lynn Toole, we have the bedding to accommodate the cages. We are very grateful for SOS for recognizing the urgent need and donating directly to United to cover our CEP testing [for Aleutian's Disease Virus]. However, we need your help financially in supporting the distemper vaccinations, rabies vaccinations, neutering and spaying, and all the possible medical expenses that will come from this rescue. We have received ferrets ranging in age from 4 months to 8 years, all intact and unsocialized. They saw sunlight for the first time today, and they danced in their carriers while waiting for us to load and transport. They have lived their entire lives in an unventilated, windowless garage, with the human contact being when they were fed and watered. We can most certainly expect some very special elder kids in need of surgery or supportive medical care for life. One little girl that looks to be at least 8yrs and still intact, hair loss indicates adrenal, clung to us from cage to carrier. She didn't want to let go. This is just one of the special kids in this rescue. We are looking for special homes for special kids. This is a major rescue, and we need your help financially. The last large breeder rescue on the East Coast that Kim and I coordinated included 33 ferrets, at a cost of over $3,000.00, with a veterinarian doing the surgeries at near cost. We need funds, pure and simple. We will triage all these ferrets, first and foremost collecting and sending in blood for the United CEP ADV tests, beginning the distemper vaccinations, rabies vaccinations and have a vet examine and diagnose each ferret. 62....SIXTY-TWO.....Can you help? If so please direct your donation to rockysrescue@juno.com, or send a donation, made payable to Rocky's: Barb Clay (Rocky's Rescue) 832C Falls Rd. Parkton, Md. 21120 We are a pro-adoption shelter....no matter what their need, we know there is a family capable of loving them through it. Once triaged, we will accept the outreach from our sister shelters that has already been offered, and certainly consider any other offers of help to make this horrible situation the best for the ferrets that are tonight finally safe and comfortable here at Rocky's. Thank you, Barb Clay Dir of Shelter Affairs Rocky's Ferret Rescue and Shelter, Inc. If you can offer any kind of help, please contact Barb or send a donation. --Mary & the Fuzzies Saturday, July 19, 2003
I love coffee in the morning. I've been drinking coffee since I was in high school -- every morning. It's fair to say I'm addicted (certainly if I miss my morning coffee I get a headache). But what a pleasant addiction! Less destructive than others anyway.
Nothing special to note. Eric and I have been discussing alternative ways to deliver our e-newsletter. Spam filters and paranoia make it difficult to get people to read the newsletter (even though they sign up for it and confirm signing up for it). So we might just put it up on the web site and e-mail people that a new newsletter is available for reading. Another alternative is putting the newsletter in a pdf and letting people download it and print it out (if they want). If you have any opinions on this, let me know. That's about it for today. -- Mary Wednesday, July 16, 2003
New BloggerThis is my first post since they've upgraded Blogger. I hope it goes through all right.Bike RidingYesterday we rode our bikes from here to Bethpage State Park -- it was a long ride, hilly, and great fun. I had forgotten the thrill of flying down a hill on a bicycle! The path is through woods, so it's shady and fragrant. Very enjoyable and quite different from the ride down to Jones Beach. The Jones Beach ride is all along Wantagh Parkway and in the sun. On the way there, you go against a lot of wind. But it is a nice ride, too. The problem with the Jones Beach ride is the bridges. The bike/rollerblade/walking bridges are added onto the car bridges as an afterthought and they are very narrow. The first two aren't terrible, but the third is awful and long. Even so, it's a nice bike ride. I'm really enjoying the bike riding thing. It's very freeing.Gabby's Vaccine ReactionAbout a week or so ago the ferrets got some vaccinations (Gabby and Trixie got their distemper shots and Koosh got his rabies shot). Gabby had a reaction, even though she was pretreated -- and it was the new Merial vaccine. This was her second time getting the Merial vaccine (you rarely see vaccine reactions the first time out). Her little nose turned bright red and she became lethargic and limp. She's all right now. A shot of epinephrine and some fluids brought her around. But she had hind-end weakness for a few days afterwards. Now comes the big question: What will we do next year? There's pretty much a guarantee that she'll have a reaction, so I don't know that we can give her any more vaccinations. I have to hope that she's gotten enough immunity from the shots she's already had. Poor little fluff ball.WritingI'm supposed to be writing, but I haven't been. That's why I figured if I started by doing a blog entry, I could kick-start myself. There's a lot I need to be writing, but I'm just not doing it. Some things are just too stressful right now. But that'll end soon enough and I should be in a better position to move forward.Ok, let's see how this new Blogger version works ... --Mary |
