going to get our mum back! Mum brought in the New Year in an unusual

way! She spent Christmas day with her 2 legged furless family and grand

kids - she was warned that they were sick, mum shrugged "so what" she

hangs out with germ factories all the time on the Big Yellow Thingy so

she told her family she was going to be there anyway.


Christmas day she came home in time to do our last shift and do meds

she had a slight sore throat but nothing she was too concerned about

well she should have been!!!! She got sicker and sicker as the days

went by, her entire week's vacation she spent sick. Mum did kids and

cages. That means she got us up, put us away, and cleaned our cages,

refreshed food and water. Nothing else! The only one that came to visit

and help was a new shelter friend Miss Victoria - mum was too sick to

want anyone here but, Miss Victoria had made the appointment and plans

to come that day weeks in advance, she lives far away so mum did not

want to cancel her visit, she let Miss Victoria play with us and she

sorta did things then rested then did a few more things then rested

again. All mum wanted to do was sleep - she did a lot of sleeping that

week.


By New years Day she needed medical intervention! Mum does not like or

accept medical intervention easily, she does not like or accept taking

meds easily, so when she sees a doctor and takes meds you know she is

really really sick!


Mum finally had to ask for help! Mum was checked out, prescriptions

called in and meds to ingest, yucky ones - we get our meds in our duck

soup - mum has to take hers without - we want thank Miss Priscilla for

the cotton candy mum got for Christmas - she has been instrumental in

mums' recovery. On top of the pills, mum was prescribed an inhaler to

use that she found to be so yucky that she found it hard to do the

treatments that she was told to do 3 times a day. - she gagged, spit

and sputtered - mum promised both doctor Keenen and Miss Kathy that she

would use the inhaler before she went to bed that night! Mum happened

to have opened one of the bags of cotton candy Miss Priscilla sent her

so after doing 2 puffs of the inhaler, mum opened the mouth wash that

was picked up for her to disguise the inhaler taste - there was a toss

up which taste was worse the inhaler or mouth wash - so mum popped a

good amount of cotton candy in her mouth! WALA the nasty taste was

gone! Mum now has a way to get over the hump so she can take the 3

treatments a day prescribed by the doctor!


Mum needed to get her hands on more cotton candy J - Miss Deena got her

a cotton candy machine several years ago but she was too sick to get it

out to make some - mum took her morning inhaler treatment washing it

down with a good amount of cotton candy. Not a traditional breakfast.

So the song on Mary Poppins movie "a spoonful of sugar helps the

medicine go down" no truer words have ever been spoken or sung!


Thanks Miss Priscilla for helping our mum get better! Mum spent a week

on her own doing just us and cages - one week and 2 days later the

support staff came in to help - Miss Mindy and Miss Marcia were here

the Wednesday morning after New Years day to get the shelter and the

kitchen whipped back into shape. Miss Marcia got the kitchen done,

errands to the PO, bank, grocery store and pharmacy. Miss Mindy got the

play areas back in shape keeping up with shelter duties while mum lay

under the covers sleeping trying to get better! Mum was out of work for

an entire week. Grandma and Grandpa Harvey told Miss Mindy she was to

stay here with us until Mum was back on her feet - Miss Mindy stayed

until Friday night -


Mum did a whole lot of sleeping - but it looks like we have her back

she was up and moving - stripping play areas and fixing things like she

does around here - 20 days she was down and out! We kids want to say

thanks for all the shelter friends that stepped up to help mum get

better, Dr. Keenen was the bestest doctor ever - he made sure mum got

the medicines she needed and the check-up required - he even called to

check on her -


Possum here: - Hey Sarah can we get on with it please? Shelter news?

Not mum news!


Sarah Here: HELLLLLLOOOOOOO! What mum is not part of the shelter news?


Possum here: Yes but enough is enough - mum is back on her feet, she is

back to doing what needs doing around here so we need to get back to

doing the news as it is intended to be - like the New link Miss Mindy

got up on our site http://www.ferretfarm.org/Animal_Antics.html

Like - the message we got from Miss Wendy L- take a look -


Marshall Products on Facebook was having a photo contest. So, I

submitted one of my pictures that I took down at your place. I

believe this might be Riley's ferret from "Clinic Day".


I got an email from Marshall, that my photo was selected. They will

feed up to 5 ferrets for the year. Shipment quarterly or when

requested. I will stash those bags away for you. Wendy


Sarah Here: Okay! Okay! When Miss Wendy asked mum if we use marshals

food mum told her yes it in one of our mixes - most of us when we come

to the shelter to live we have only been fed Marshals food so with it

in the mix we get the food we recognize as well as other food so we

learn to like the other food too - 514 people looked at our webshots

site

http://community.webshots.com/user/lakeroad2

and the messages I got from doing the news last month.


Tell Sarah she did an excellent job and thanks to Possum for helping!

Hope you enjoy your week. Marcia


WOW! There WAS a lot of news. Glad Sarah and Possum seem to be getting

along well on this project. Bonnie


Possum here: yeah like that silly!


Sarah Here: Well Possum I have all the notes that mum left me covered,

the only thing we have not done it say


HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY! Until next month

Sarah Senior Reporter