BLFSH Members Communication Pages

The number of ferrets looking for homes had reduced because of closing the doors to new intakes, with the exceptions of extreme hardship cases or Animal Control/SPCA transfers, and several successful placements since April '08.  We're still looking to place 20 ferrets (7 of which are "Special Needs"), and many that are approaching another anniversary with us.

The club membership is still the very best avenue for prospective adopters.  By growing the club we in-turn grow our possible placements &/or develop additional foster homes.  We're no longer advertising the shelter because historically that has brought in waves of surrenders instead of adoption requests.  Thus the reason we need to concentrate on growing the club.

Please check out the notes in the Directors Corner section.  While I probably won't be posting extremely important things there I would like to try to keep the notes current to the projects we are working on.

While you're here, check out this cool feature: BLFSH Community Corkboard

You may need to log-on.  If so, email me and I'll send you the info. 

I am hoping to use this site to keep the disconnected shelter members in touch with the daily goings on with the organization & the needs of the ferrets in our care.

We were contacted by Patty Smukall, Education Curator for the Mill Mountain Zoo, about getting a pair of ferrets for their program.  Patty & Megan came for a nice visit the first week of December '08 and met several of the adoptables.  They sat with Robyn Little, Bobby, & myself for about an hour & a half, talking about their program & us about the ferrets.  I think we have matched them up with a couple of good citizen ferrets to represent us.  We're looking forward to a long & helpful relationship!

The Ohio kids still need to go to ferret knowledgeable owners.  They are still very "special" kids, requiring care in handeling. Intergrading them with the "pet store" kids has been slow going as they still have confilcts and need to be supervised when playing with them.  We took in 3 ferrets from Dr. F's program and they are playing very nicely with the McKids.  The three are so similar it's still hard to tell who's who!