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Feb
05
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Local couple care for 13 ferrets |
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Monday, 05 February 2007 |
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Local couple care for 13 ferrets |
by Mary Snow, CITIZEN-TIMES CORRESPONDENT
published February 5, 2007 12:15 am
Asheville Citizen-Times
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Joel and Karen Meadows share their home with 13 ferrets. They have nursed 23 of the animals back to health and turned their home into a ferret sanctuary. |
ASHEVILLE — “It all started with Max,” says Karen Meadows, veterinary technician at Charlotte Street Animal Hospital. “He was an impulse buy. We went to the pet store to get cat food and left with a ferret.”
Max was only the beginning for Karen, and husband Joel’s, love for ferrets. Over the next seven years, they rescued 23 ferrets and turned their home into a ferret sanctuary.
“We usually get a lot of the ones from Super Pets that are more diseased and we try to nurse them back to health,” says Karen. “The shelter has us on speed dial and will call us before they have to put one down.”
The Meadows currently have 13 ferrets and let them free roam around the house and sleep in the master bedroom. Having so many ferrets meant they had to get creative and ferret-proof their home.
They have gates to block certain rooms, a tube that runs through the house that the ferrets use to navigate their way from room to room.
“They like to run through the blankets on the floor and they love anything that is like a tube,” says Joel Meadows. “We braided together dryer vent tubing for them to play in.”
Ferrets are playful animals that require a lot of work.
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Jan
14
2007
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Hope dawns for ferrets |
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Sunday, 14 January 2007 |
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Hope dawns for ferrets |
By Emily Walker
This is Wiltshire
Dawn Bradfield A SWINDON animal lover is planning to travel to Northern Ireland to rescue 150 abused ferrets.
Dawn Bradfield, 45, of Redcliffe Street, is borrowing a van to drive to County Antrim to rescue ferrets discovered in a "vile condition" by police last weekend.
Dawn, who has four ferrets of her own - Rosie, Fudge, Missy and Roman - said: "I got my first ferret three years ago. Then I got ferret madness. One is never enough.
"I have a friend who's got 31, so I look quite restrained compared to her.
"A friend in Belfast told me about these animals being discovered, knowing that I love ferrets. I felt I had to do something about it.
"As soon as they're well enough to travel we'll go out and get them.
"Some of them were in such a bad state, they had started eating each other. Recommend this article... |
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Jan
03
2007
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A ferret's for life.. |
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Wednesday, 03 January 2007 |
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A ferret's for life.. |
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Norwich Evening News
Sophie Maddison with some of the ferrets currently residing at the Great Yarmouth Ferret Re-Homing and Welfare Centre at Burgh Castle.
They are cute, cuddly and more playful than kittens but finding a home for a ferret is proving difficult in Norfolk with one rescue home being inundated with the furry creatures over the festive period.
The Great Yarmouth Ferret Re-Homing and Welfare centre now has more than 15 of the pets in its care and is desperate to find them a loving home for 2007.
According to Sophie Maddison, who single-handedly runs the centre in Castle Burgh near Yarmouth, ferrets are not the dirty, smelly and mysterious animals many think they are.
“Ferrets make wonderful pets,” the 39-year-old said. “They are so funny and cute and far more playful and interesting than a kitten or a puppy.
“I am really keen to get them into a good home for the new year because I have more than 15 here at the moment and there is no more room for them.
“Some of the ferrets need reuniting with their owners because they are great escape artists. However some have just been abandoned. I think a lot of people own them as pets for a few years and decide they don't want them anymore so they dump them here.” Recommend this article... |
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Nov
23
2006
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Running a ferret shelter? Avoid the word 'weaselly' |
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Thursday, 23 November 2006 |
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Running a ferret shelter? Avoid the word 'weaselly' |
Thursday, November 23, 2006
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The Oregonian Some things -- even for wacky Southeast Portland -- sound too nutty, like one of those urban legends. But what's going on in the basement of a tidy house in Ladd's Addition is true. A bit out there, for sure, but true.
Let's get right to the point: Elayne Barclay runs a shelter for ferrets.
Ferrets are that species of animal that needs a hard sell. Dogs and cats? Chocolate cake. A ferret, which looks like a cousin to an opossum or rat, is the tofu platter making the rounds at a party. The host keeps pushing it on guests, telling everyone they have to try it. Just once. And then they'll finally appreciate this most misunderstood morsel.
"I know it's odd," says Barclay, who in 1998 started the Cascade Ferret Network, a nonprofit organization that farms the ferrets out to foster homes scattered throughout the metro area. "It's kind of embarrassing to tell people what I do."
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Oct
28
2006
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Looking for an energetic pet? Try Furry |
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Saturday, 28 October 2006 |
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------------- Written by: Michelle Oyola
Looking for an energetic pet? Try Furry |
By Michelle Oyola
OF THE POST-DISPATCH
10/28/2006
Hannah Fiess, 7, of Webster Groves, holds a ferret for the first time at the PetsMart Store in Brentwood Promenade Sunday. Fiess mother Shelley said, " We came in to have a look. Most recently we had fish, and then cats, but the girls want a dog. That could end our marriage... We had a guinea pig. We've had a lot of animals."
(Karen Elshout/P-D)
Meet Anita Berg, 50. Berg runs a ferret hospice program in her home, located in the city limits. She has 25 ferrets living in her basement and on the first floor. Ten of the slinky, silky-smooth mammals are her own pets, but the others are there because they have medical needs.
One white ferret named F.D.R. is paralyzed. He scoots around the floor, dragging his two hind legs around with his muscular front end as he teases one of Berg's cats. F.D.R. fell from a two-story balcony and is now one of the ferrets in Berg's care.
Berg is constantly changing bedding, mopping floors, bleaching litter boxes, giving medicine and making sure the ferrets get enough exercise. But she doesn't mind the work.
"I love it," she says as she holds F.D.R. up to her nose. He gently sniffs her lips, and she returns his kisses. "They're my new kids. My real kids are grown and gone. They're a lot of work, but I love them anyway."
Berg is a volunteer for FURRY (Ferrets Underfoot Running Round You) Ferret Rescue. The nonprofit organization offers ferret adoptions and educates the public about ferrets. Since its founding in 1997, the organization has found new homes for about 1,300 ferrets, says Robert Morris, FURRY president.
FURRY began as a social club for ferret lovers. However, people who didn't want their ferrets began dropping them off at members' homes, so the idea for a rescue agency just for ferrets was born. Recommend this article... |
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