Plain Dealer
staff/Kaye Spector
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Lonnie Timmons / The Plain Dealer
Jean
Caputo-Lee cuddles with one of her ferrets in 2006. |
June 29, 2009
Whatever happened to Jean
Caputo-Lee's plans for Ohio's only ferret shelter in Parma?
They never happened.
Last year, Caputo-Lee, who operated Ferrets Unlimited, moved to Virginia
and disbanded the nonprofit rescue organization, which she had run from
her Cleveland home since 1992.
Armed with a substantial donation, Caputo had purchased a property in
Parma in 2006 for what would have been Ohio's only ferret shelter. At the
time, she was keeping the rescued ferrets -- which numbered more than 80
-- in cages in her Cleveland home.
After she decided to move to Virginia, Caputo asked other ferret rescue
volunteers to carry out her vision for a shelter,
but they declined. They reorganized Ferrets Unlimited into a rescue operation with a network of
about a dozen foster homes, where the animals stay until a permanent home
can be found.
So far this year, the newly named Ferrets Unlimited Rescue Services has
adopted out about 30 ferrets, says Deb Daugherty Benson, the nonprofit's
president.
Ferrets Unlimited will take part in the Canine Fun Days from 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m. Aug. 15-16 at the polo field in the Cleveland Metroparks South
Chagrin Reservation in Moreland Hills.
The group has about 21 ferrets available for adoption. Go to www.ferretsunlimited.org to
see photos of the available animals or to make a donation.
-- Kaye Spector
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