The website has been updated and we are now very close to accurate. We are missing Gordo a 4 year old chocolate lovebug and Coco a 1.5 year old female sable. We’ll get them up soon though. Must have missed their pics.

The other cool thing to share is that we had a get together for people who helped with the show. Four people came (out of 14) so they got all the door prizes and great vegetarian chili. In other news check out this website some adopters made for their ferrets. You may recognize Liv (Livvy)and Demzel (Heavy D) if you watch the website often.

http://web.me.com/kindacrunchy/Ferrets/Fuzzies.html

It is always really nice to hear from our adopters, especially when things are going awesome! You can always write too if you need advice. We’re here to support you.

Next Saturday we’ll be bringing some ferrets to the medical rehabilitation center at the Emmett hopsital (Yes, Emmett has a hospital) for about an hour. I hope everyone will enjoy their visit.

We had been invited to numerous things this year for August, but have decided to slow events until the Spot Walk in October to focus on internal affairs: paperwork, documentation, organization and other fun business-type work.

We had two ferrets go home today and two more will go home Friday. Quarantine is still empty thus far… so we’ll see how the week rolls out.

Bill & Laura ~EFS
Laura

Ok so this is a secret so I will trust you all!

April’s Birthday is on the 25th of this month. So to celebrate her Birthday, from the 18th-25th When you place an order with Totally Ferret (totallyferret.com) over the phone or through the website and say Happy Birthday to her or type it in the comment box on our website we will donate one pound of Totally Ferret to SOS. Plus if you place an order over 20.00 we will send you a free package of treats.

This is open to everyone not just shelters please if you have a club or a forum (or THIS blog!) please spread the word.

A bunch, but not that you all can tell due to lack of postings. We are not going to do the CanineFestival this year. We will do Spot Walk though.

We have over 10 new ferrets to put on the website and finally quarantine is empty. August is a big turn-in month for us. Cycles and systems.. systems and cycles. The last five were all under 2 and three of them were 1 or younger. Can we say “bounce of the walls time?”
We invested in a high quality air filter system for the ferret room. It was getting to be too difficult to circulate the air in there often enough. I guess that means the A/C bills are lower though due to not coming on as often. When the A/C doesn’t come on, neither does the fans and blowers to filter and circulate air. We now have one on all the time and it is doing a great job.

We also picked up three rolling filing boxes with handles that we are going to make into “event” boxes. Anyone could take one of these boxes and have a decent information table. We’re going to try to stock them all the same way and then if we have a few volunteers who often do events without us, they can check them out and bring them back when they need refilling. This way, each person will have everything they need for each event (minus ferrets). It may take a while to get everything together, but it should make traveling & education events much easier and less intimidating.

More to follow…

EFS

Oh the many events! So few of us! There are two events we have been invited to that get major exposure.  Boise Canine Festival  http://www.caninefestivals.com/

and See Spot Walk.

The Canine Festival is 9-9 Saturday August 30th and 9-5 Sunday August 31st.  It would be great to have someone who could run an info booth at least from 9-5 Saturday or even part of that day. We’d then need someone to pick up the booth Sunday at 5. If anyone is willing to help out we can do this one, otherwise we can pass. It is a free 12×12 booth.

See Spot Walk is October 4th and runs 9:30 to 2ish. We are one of the few non-dog booths, but we always seem to get some great exposure here. If anyone would be interested in manning an info booth, please let us know as soon as possible as forms are due in shortly.

We try to do what we can, but there’s a chance I will be overseas for a chunk of Sept. so there will be some catching up to do since Bill already will have his hands full with work, Sandon and the regular shelter maintenance.

Thanks again everyone!

Laura & Bill

EFS

So for those of you trying to access the third batch of pictures from Cathy and Paul, it actually is trying to link to my facebook page instead of flickr. So I uploaded the pictures of flickr and here’s the link for those.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29262029@N07/

The descriptions are brief, but at least the pictures are up.

Cathy

Here are a few pictures of some of our ring winners from the Boise Ferret show!

The rest of the awesome photos can be found here

Ferret show photos on Flickr!

Ferret Show Winners on Flickr!

More photos from Cathy on Flickr

Hello to everyone.

Lately shelter duties have intensified and some of our more “shiftable” tasks are falling behind. We still have to do thank you notes to show sponsors & attendees, have our postmortem get together, plan for the Sept. Show, and get the remaining supplies put away. However, we have identified some areas that would be easy for someone to help out if anybody was interested.

We need

Petfinder Updater - BC volunteered! (Thanks BC!)

Sympathy post card sender - (TO volunteered)
Some help with data entry for labels

Compiling a binder containing all relevant info pertaining to shows

Watching and updating shelter postings on ZIdaho and Craigslist

Inventory for items we have for sale

Making short videos of adoptable ferrets for petfinder

Probably other little things we can’t seem to fit in.

On another note, I am curious if anyone is interested in going to the show in N. Idaho Sept. 13th. I’m taking a tally to see if anyone is interested in going.

Thanks everyone for taking the time to read the list. We appreciate it.

Laura & Bill

EFS

CHAMPIONSHIP RINGS:

Companion:
Ring #1: Milan owned by Paul & Cathy Hamlett
Ring #2: Tinkerbell owned by Trina Staffon
Ring #3: Kazakoba owned by Erika John
Best in Class: Kazakoba owned by Erika John
Best in Opposite: Tinkerbell owned by Trina Staffon
Alter:
Ring #1: LW’s Annabelle owned by Sara Hamilton-Yotz
Ring #2: JBF’s Bellino of FPK owned by Suzanne Hamilton
Ring #3: JBF’s Bellino of FPK owned by Suzanne Hamilton
Best in Class: JBF’s Bellino of FPK owned by Suzanne Hamilton
Best in Opposite: LW’s Annabelle owned by Sara Hamilton-Yotz

Breeder:
Ring #1: LW’s Mirabella owned by Sara Hamilton-Yotz
Ring #2: MMF’s Black is Sinful of FTN owned by Nancy Park
Ring #3: SH’s Ichi-Ban of WWW owned by Paula Woodland
Best in Class: MMF’s Black is Sinful of FTN owned by Nancy Park
Best in Opposite: MMF’s Poley Cat Zoey of FP owned by Jessie Molan
BEST IN SHOW: JBF’s Bellino of FPK owned by Suzanne Hamilton

SPECIALTY RINGS:

Sable: MCF’s Sanostee owned by Linda Gurule
Black Sable: HTF’s Luther’s Jumping Bean of FPK owned by Suzanne Hamilton
Blaze/Panda/Mutt: Rosco owned by Beth Stanley
Albino/DEW: Nadia owned by Jill Score
Champagne: FTN’s Mr. Rex owned by Nancy Park
Chocolate: Tigger owned by Bonnie Cole
Point: LLR’s The Fonz of FTN owned by Nancy Park
Roan: JBF’s Bellino of FPK owned by Suzanne Hamilton
Black Mitt/Black Roan Mitt: MMF’s Poleycat Zoey of FP owned by Jessie Molan
Mitt: FPK’s Tinkerbell Lady SapphFire owned by Suzanne Hamilton
Super Senior: SH’s Ichi-Ban of WWW owned by Paula Woodland
Physically Challenged: FPK’s PassionFire Princess Ciaobella owned by Suzanne Hamilton
Shelter/Rescue Jills: Milan owned by Paul & Cathy Hamlett
Shelter/Rescue Hobs: Que Pasa owned by Jessie Molan
Queen of Show: HTF’s Luther’s Jumping Bean of FPK owned by Suzanne Hamilton
King of Show: T.C. Chaser owned by Jessie Molan

We are looking for a volunteer to update petfinder to match our website. We’d just need you to check every few days to be sure all the ferrets match. We can show you how to update the site, login and upload photos. It really is a piece of cake. If you think you’d like to volunteer for this task, please email us at info@emmettferret.org

~Laura & Bill

Here is a list of winners from the Boise Ferret Show. It isn’t quite complete, because we aren’t sure who won a couple rings, but once we get the complete list from the AFA we will repost with updates.

CHAMPIONSHIP RINGS:

Companion:
Ring #1: Milan owned by Paul & Cathy Hamlett
Ring #2:
Ring #3: Kazakoba owned by Erika John
Best in Class: Kazakoba owned by Erika John
Best in Opposite:

Alter:
Ring #1: LW’s Annabelle owned by Sara Hamilton-Yotz
Ring #2: JBF’s Bellino of FPK owned by Suzanne Hamilton
Ring #3: JBF’s Bellino of FPK owned by Suzanne Hamilton
Best in Class: JBF’s Bellino of FPK owned by Suzanne Hamilton
Best in Opposite: LW’s Annabelle owned by Sara Hamilton-Yotz

Breeder:
Ring #1: LW’s Mirabella owned by Sara Hamilton-Yotz
Ring #2: MMF’s Black is Sinful of FTN owned by Nancy Park
Ring #3: SH’s Ichi-Ban of WWW owned by Paula Woodland
Best in Class: MMF’s Black is Sinful of FTN owned by Nancy Park
Best in Opposite:

BEST IN SHOW: JBF’s Bellino of FPK owned by Suzanne Hamilton

SPECIALTY RINGS:

Sable: MCF’s Sanostee owned by Linda Gurule
Black Sable: HTF’s Luther’s Jumping Bean of FPK owned by Suzanne Hamilton
Blaze/Panda/Mutt: Rosco owned by Beth Stanley
Albino/DEW: Nadia owned by Jill Score
Champagne: FTN’s Mr. Rex owned by Nancy Park
Chocolate: Tigger owned by Bonnie Cole
Point: LLR’s The Fonz of FTN owned by Nancy Park
Roan: JBF’s Bellino of FPK owned by Suzanne Hamilton
Black Mitt/Black Roan Mitt: MMF’s Poleycat Zoey of FP owned by Jessie Molan
Mitt: FPK’s Tinkerbell Lady SapphFire owned by Suzanne Hamilton
Super Senior: SH’s Ichi-Ban of WWW owned by Paula Woodland
Physically Challenged: FPK’s PassionFire Princess Ciaobella owned by Suzanne Hamilton
Shelter/Rescue Jills: Milan owned by Paul & Cathy Hamlett
Shelter/Rescue Hobs: we know its one of Jessie Molan’s ferrets, just not sure which one exactly

Queen of Show: HTF’s Luther’s Jumping Bean of FPK owned by Suzanne Hamilton
King of Show: T.C. Chaser owned by Jessie Molan