Post by tiedyed69peace on Dec 4, 2008 8:36:24 GMT -5
I'm not sure if I asked this question before, but doesn't anyone know of a good rescue that would be willing to pick up ferrets from a shelter in Berks County, PA?
Here's the story. There are three ferrets that were surrendered to the Berks County Animal Rescue League approximately two weeks ago. I've spent some time with them, and they're really great guys, around maybe 3-5 years. They are in terrible condition though. They are all, for lack of better word, emaciated. This isn't the rescues fault; they came that way, and it's the rescues policy to feed them whatever they came with and whatever is donated, so their condition cannot improve without proper food.
Additionally, two of them have hair loss. I don't know if that can be a dietary issue or not.... One of them might just have rat tail, because his hair loss is isolated to his tail, but the other has hair loss on his butt.
They all have dirty wirey kind of hair.
Their ferret nation cage does not have trays in it, so the rescue covers those two levels with newspaper as far as it will stretch.
The rescue has done probably all they can, but they are not ferret knowledgable and their focus is 99% on their cats and dogs and 1% (or maybe less) on their ferrets, rabbits, rats, turtles, whatever.
I know that ARL will turn over animals to breed specific rescues for better care and placement, particularly if the rescue has its 501(c)3 nonprofit status (although they have turned over to my rat rescue friend who does not have it, but they gave her a little bit of a hard time).
I'm looking into adopting the albino; if I can work everything out, I should adopt him either Saturday or Wednesday (because the rescue has crazy hours). They want me to adopt all three (they've tried convincing me each time I've seen these guys), but I can't take in that many (essentially) sick fuzzies at once.
I'm not an expert on ferret health because (so far) I have been lucky and my ferrets have been in good health, but I'm not sure whether or not their condition was life threatening at this point... but I know that they are certainly in poor condition, and the only other shelter volunteer that has ferret experience agreed.
This is the shelter's pic of two of them:
Here's the story. There are three ferrets that were surrendered to the Berks County Animal Rescue League approximately two weeks ago. I've spent some time with them, and they're really great guys, around maybe 3-5 years. They are in terrible condition though. They are all, for lack of better word, emaciated. This isn't the rescues fault; they came that way, and it's the rescues policy to feed them whatever they came with and whatever is donated, so their condition cannot improve without proper food.
Additionally, two of them have hair loss. I don't know if that can be a dietary issue or not.... One of them might just have rat tail, because his hair loss is isolated to his tail, but the other has hair loss on his butt.
They all have dirty wirey kind of hair.
Their ferret nation cage does not have trays in it, so the rescue covers those two levels with newspaper as far as it will stretch.
The rescue has done probably all they can, but they are not ferret knowledgable and their focus is 99% on their cats and dogs and 1% (or maybe less) on their ferrets, rabbits, rats, turtles, whatever.
I know that ARL will turn over animals to breed specific rescues for better care and placement, particularly if the rescue has its 501(c)3 nonprofit status (although they have turned over to my rat rescue friend who does not have it, but they gave her a little bit of a hard time).
I'm looking into adopting the albino; if I can work everything out, I should adopt him either Saturday or Wednesday (because the rescue has crazy hours). They want me to adopt all three (they've tried convincing me each time I've seen these guys), but I can't take in that many (essentially) sick fuzzies at once.
I'm not an expert on ferret health because (so far) I have been lucky and my ferrets have been in good health, but I'm not sure whether or not their condition was life threatening at this point... but I know that they are certainly in poor condition, and the only other shelter volunteer that has ferret experience agreed.
This is the shelter's pic of two of them:
I hope someone helps them soon are they charging a fee to get these babies?
). I want to adopt the one... I need to work everything out with my landlord and boyfriend first... but do you think that's fair to them? Should I take one of them and at least one will be guaranteed to be taken care of... or should I leave them together since they are cagemates and hope for the best? Do you think it would be too hard on them to be split up?