Ferret & Dove Sanctuary, Inc.

[ferretdovesanct]

This is Susie Lee to tell about The Ferret & Dove Sanctuary, Inc.
we have two web sites and a discussion forum, here are all those addies...
Our original site is
www.angelfire.com/theforce/ferret_rescuer/index.html
our petfinder addy is...
http:ferretanddovesanctuary.petfinder.com
...and our yahoogroups discussion site is...
groups.yahoo.com/group/FerretAndDoveSanctuary/

we've been working as a rescue for over 10 years, originally as the Ferret Rescue of pensacola, Fl., but the partners we were working with had to move way ot of state so we re-incorporated as The Ferret And Dove Sanctuary, Inc. on Aug. 3rd, 2003 and have, since then, adopted out 160 ferrets, 65 domestic doves as pet birds, 25 rabbits and 11 guinea pigs/cavys that were mostly turned in after Hurricanes Ivan and Dennis smacked down so many homes in our general area. Our current population is 65 ferrets, 35 doves, 6 cats, 1 dog, 1 hamster, and we literally never know what else.

[Crystal]

Welcome to the site we are glad to have you. Would you like a free banner? If so pm me and I will make one for you and have it listed on the site!

[Crystal]

here is the banner we will add.

[ferretdovesanct]

Thank you, so very much, for the lovely banner you made featuring our most-used version of our logo.
Have been woefully busy with several new emergency-intakes, one lady drove over 600 miles to bring her ill ferret (turned out to be fluid pressing around the ferret's heart) to turn her ferret over to us so we could get one of our two main veterinarian hospitals to treat her;the "big city' where the lady came from had several vets who said they were willing to see her ferret but wanted exhorbitant fees ($600.00 just to see one pet does sound exhorbitant) and the several other ferret rescues in her area had their numbers all disconnected. Well once the poor little fur-lady was signed into our care, either of our vet's have a deal with our shelter that they will treat any animal we bring in that needs treatment and we pay each vet $100.00 per month straight from our Soc. Sec. checks to their hospital's accounts each month and more as any adoptions come through. So even though we owe each of our vets more than several hundred each, we have a sure and reliable medical treatment to turn to for those ferrets who come under our care. Keeps us poor, but it's a great deal for the ferrets!
Also, our commercial will be playing in most of the major cities in the state of Florida as Public Service Announcements on many of the news-talk radio stations...we've already sent the voice-tracks to three stations and will be asking permission from as many more as may be willing to run them. The beta-taped version has gone to be aired in NBC-15 of Mobile, Alabama, which will help cover three more stations through much of the rest of the Gulf Coast on Television.

[ferretdovesanct]

Gosh! I forgot to put the two slash-lines in the link to our petfinder page!
Here is the corrected link (tired, still cage-cleaning shelter-Mom-Susie)

ferretanddovesanctuary.petfinder.com

Much better photos of all our adoptables are there, and many of those who have been adopted since we got donated a digital camera by Lisa of F.E.R.R.E.T. , of the emergency-response team.

[dbickling]

Hey Suzie,
It's Dee from Maryland. Tell Wes I said hi!!!!!!
Glad to have you hear!!!!!!!!!!!

Hugs

[ferretdovesanct]

Hey, there, Dee, Good to hear from you, too! Wes said "Hi, Back",
and he sez "why don't i tell you about our commercials", so, what the hey...

About three weeks ago, before school was out for the local kids, we had a class from a local Middle School and two of their teachers come over to help us do some heavy-duty cage-cleanings (taking entire cages out, changing the works, spray-washing the cages and changeing/cleaning the pans, the heavy stuff, not just the day-to-day cleanings we always already do for our 67 ferrets)...and then we had an offer from a friend of Wesley's to have a commercial made asking for help for the Sanctuary, featuring these great kids handling both the ferrets and the doves. This was done, and will be airing in our local 200-mile stretch of the Gulf Coast for the coming year as a Public Service announcement. The makers of the commercial, CoxMedia, suggested they could get us CD copies of it to send to other stations. They gave us 5 copies, we sent it to the NBC station in Mobile, Ala., so now it's going to air on TV from SanDestin through GulfPort, Miss. along the Gulf Coast. So Wes was asked "what about the radio stations?, so we got the audio part of the tapes airing on various, mostly AM radio stations in our area and he's been busy getting permission and sending it to many other radio stations all over Florida's main cities; ALSO folks in Kansas City and that local area around Kansas City will be hearing about the Ferret & Dove Sanctuary in PSA's on two of their radio stations. More will be carrying it all over the U.S. as we obtain permission and send it to any of the main stations in the country (focusing on CBS,NBC, ABC and FOX stations that average folks would most frequently watch, especially the first three if the folks don't believe in cable and watch old-fashioned-ly by antenna).
So it won't be long before more folks will have "ferret-sighting"'s of ferrets playing in toy-tubes, being held by good kids and positive stuff like that there.

[dbickling]

Wow, very cool!!

[ferretdovesanct]

WKRG-5 of mobile, Alabama has just aired an interview they did of us (by reporter Chad Petrie) at their 6 a.m. newscast. Now, (happily!) our phone is ringing off its hook with folks calling to ask about ADOPTING either ferrets or doves.

[ferretdovesanct]

I FOUND the Ferret & Dove Sanctuary's "help us" commercial on
YouTube. Two of our directors have been sending copies of this to television stations all over the United States, and one of them uploaded this 30-second commercial, aired on many tv stations as a public service announcement because it's for the benefit of a non-profit, NO-kill 501-c-3 shelter. Here is the link....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Arc_B6faWI


How about this for promoting ferrets as handleable, LOVABLE pets that people could want to have, alongside the gentlest birds in existence, the doves!

[ferretdovesanct]

About a week ago Wes and i were interviewed by a local television station for an article about us and the Ferret & Dove Sanctuary. The video they released is, of course, just a fraction of what was filmed but the young reporter asked good questions, such as what did the ferrets and doves need (i started to reel off various items, then i said "...everything a bunch of 2 year olds would need that happen to have fur or feathers" (whereupon we all chuckled, but it hit that nail on the head!). I also spent nearly 20 minutes explaining what goes into the ferrets' soup and why, including stressing that the veterinarian said NO egg whites because the whites cause anemia in many ferrets, so that I separate them and only put in the yolks...all of which was skipped over as being too long and involved...oh, well!

However, here is the link to the interview and video, so that you get a glimpse of us, the house, some of the animals and birds,and the cameraman's feet while Lawrence Ferret is ambling on thru after filling his little face with the soup (the two ferrets i bring out, whose turn to be out was next, were Lawrence and Murphy (did the "Murphy's Law" joke, too, but that was left out,...too) . Furbucket, the elderly 21 year-old persian cat tried and tried to get on-camera, even backing her old tail into the lens, but of course she got cut out, too. (the following text is theirs)

"Imagine having 100 animals in your home. One Pensacola couple is doing just
that as they care for ferrets and doves."

Full Article:
wkrg.com/news/article/sanctuary_providing_homes_for_ferrets_and_doves/4727/



(the video is just about 2 minutes long. The tv station is WKRG tv-5 of Mobile, Alabama, about a 45 minute drive from where we are in Pensacola, Florida)

[ferretdovesanct]

Over the past week, from various known and unknown sources, the known ones being the local Air Force base and the Navy base in between of which we are located, we have taken in five more ferrets, all having to be ADV tested at the vet's (safest, surest way) and most needing their rabies shots updated.
The current population at the Ferret and Dove Sanctuary is 65 ferrets. The ones whose origins are completely unknown came from a cat-and-dog shelter in Okaloosa County in Florida who had folks totally ignorant of anything about caring for ferrets of any ages getting into yelling-matches over the mystery ferrets that were dumped on them, so they called us and one of our other directors (who has a decent-running car) and Wes, my partner, took the 2-hour trip to pick up those ferrets from that shelter and bring them (as usual in most cases that we can) straight to our waiting vet's office before bringing them into the Sanctuary. These newest ones have been named Brunhild and Seigfried and are among all the pets on our pet-list scroller on both of our web-pages.
ferretanddovesanctuary.petfinder.org
and
www.angelfire.com/theforce/ferret_rescuer/index.html

interested in adoption? That interest will Jump when you see Seigfried and Brunhild...but what we want for them is to be adopted by*** ferret-Knowledgable*** folks much like yourselves.