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Post by cltomp on May 1, 2009 16:49:22 GMT -5
I don't know who makes it but I found one in like the 20-30 dollar range that folds down flat with an extendable handle it holds up to like 150 pounds or something.. we figured we will get one of those and just carry the rest of our junk... its still gonna probably take two trips cuz Im paranoid about the babies doing something stupid.... AKA Im in a room full of people who adore and are obsessed about ferrets and one of my little turds tries to jump over the play pen and gets a toe caught and screams the evil scream of death... or someone gets a toe caught in the carrier some how..... all these scenarios keeps running through my head... along with the one of Moony taking the judges rattle squirming out of their hands taking a leap off the judges table and running away with it..... they will find a way to embarrass me... im sure of it.
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Post by stacylynn1985 on May 6, 2009 0:55:35 GMT -5
Only a few more days!  Munchie Eins is getting ready! |
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Post by cltomp on May 6, 2009 6:40:17 GMT -5
Only a few more days! Munchie Eins is getting ready! Im most excited about the bath before the show.... they haven't had a bath in forever and they all are smelling now regardless of how many ever bed changes I do.... then we have nails scheduled for tomorrow... and I think im gonna add in there ears and teeth again as well |
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Post by Angie on May 6, 2009 18:48:40 GMT -5
We did nails and ears (for the first round) today. We will be doing baths and ears again on Friday. Yikes the kids decided to blow coats!!!!! This is not good!!!!!!!!
Angie
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Post by cltomp on May 6, 2009 21:46:05 GMT -5
Mine have changed colors slightly as well..... im not to sure how I feel about that lol.... padfoot my sable is starting to look like an old man hes getting dustings of silver... and moonys points are as pronounced as they were in the winter.
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Post by cltomp on May 8, 2009 15:00:43 GMT -5
Ughk there is SOOOO much work that goes into getting stuff around! I think I finally have almost everything packed... i need to sanitize a cage and two litter boxes yet.. the ferrets just got their baths... they didnt want to play much today but i think thats cuz they spent like 4 hours up wondering where we were going cuz they saw the travel cages out. There is a pile of everything we are taking building up in our house, im kinda wondering if I should have bought 2 hand carts instead of one...whoopsies. Right now the monsters are in their dry sacks and i should be cleaning out a level of the cage for them to sleep in tonight... so I am gonna go I still have laundry to do!!! hope to see everyone tomorrow feel free to come up and say hi to me and uc1gr8tgal. Ill be in the blue lazy hammock shirt she will be wearing green. Padfoot will be in sable, Nymphadora in white, and moony in champagne how trendy.
Im so excited I cant wait its gonna be so much fun spending the day with these guys and buying things for them!
We leave at 5 am and are hoping to be there by 8 so we can be all set up for the day by the time judging starts.
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Post by cltomp on May 9, 2009 21:34:49 GMT -5
Tomorrow I will have a video and an official post of how my kids did... they didn't win the top prize in any thing, or anything like that but we had a blast... so much of one we pretty much forgot to take pictures but Im gonna throw together a video of what we do have so it will be kinda cool...the video will also have what we bought. I just wanted to post some photos of my babies I had done at the show.. if anyone wants the info on the photographer PM me i have his card but Im not sure if posting that info will be against the rules or whatnot.... As for the photos they look pretty nice and were really cheap... they arent the best quality here due to them being scanned into the computer... but I just wanted you guys to see how cute they were... this was probably the highlight of my day the picture picking lol.    |
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Post by Angie on May 10, 2009 13:40:44 GMT -5
Awwwwww! Those are soooo cute! Your kids are soooooo cute!!!!! Wow what a day!!!! I loved seeing all the TLH faces!! Oh and the cookies were incredible. They saved the day for sure as there was limited food and we packed light. Katie stayed home along with Chris for this show. They were going to go get her drivers permit, but didn't get there in time. Jenny and I went off to the show with Pokey (sonic Dancer), Thundress Boom, Swiper No Swiping, and our newest Family member the incredible Miss Lily. Our kids did really well especially since they all decided to blow coats the day before the show!!! Swiper was still a little dry and was going through a coat change. He didn't place this time around, but he had a great time anyways. T-Boom lost some muscle and was also going through a coat change. No ribbons for him this time around either. Pokey did get his own ribbon. 10th in one alter ring. Yay!!!!! Then there was our Lily!!! She came home with the Chappell families first trophy. She got 1st in Adopted with Love (from Oxford), 2nd and 3rd in Companion (just missed best opposite), and 4th in Point. Picture of Lily - will send more later from the show  Angie |
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Post by cltomp on May 10, 2009 15:53:28 GMT -5
Awwww miss lilly did so well!! I saw you floating around and I really was so preoccupied with my own guys I didnt have a chance to see how you were doing.
I think for our first show we did alright. We learned a lot of things... Unaltered ferrets are stinky lol... make sure to hit up the midwest guy really really early for those playpens!!! And everyone was so friendly. We got to see Momto2 she hung around with us for a while it was very nice to meet her and talk to her and looked like she was buying out the venders as well. Thanks for the cookies!
As for us... our comments were good, they sad al my ferrets were clean had nice coats and colors...they also got great comments on their bone structures....what really got us in the title rings were the fact that they just would not hold still!!! Angie watched me most of the morning wrestle with Mr. Mooners as he was jumping out of the playpen all the time. We also got comments on all of them that they have no muscle mass... We started letting them out more in prep for the show and they lost all this weight with that combined with the summer weather we didn't realize there was so much more to their build then just letting them out and keeping them thin. Some people gave us some suggestions and we are gonna see what we can do about building up their muscles.... but our guys have a mind of their own and being fun little ferrets is their main jobs so if they wont cooperate then they wont cooperate.
I know I promised a video but I havent had time yet... so here is how we did
Nymphadora: Took 3rd in Albino.... and she was entered in Senorita Fandango and got a 2nd runner up ribbon for being in the class.
Padfoot: took 9th in the Sable and he was in Senor fandango and took 2nd runner up for being in the class as well
Moony: took last aka 6th in point category because he decided when he blew his coat he would get a bar with a point mask instead of a full V. He took 5th in the Champange .. I had a problem with everyone yellowing out on me because of the new smells, it happened to dora as well. He was also in Senor fandango and got a 2nd runner up ribbon.
It was like information overload. Someone next to us helped us with Doras teeth scaling them and we are eventually gonna have to find someone to help us get padfoots back down to normal so brushing them will take care of it. She told us his wasnt that bad and no one said anything about their teeth on the comment forms.
Someone should like make a stand that informs people how to do this stuff and sells the equipment and shampoos and stuff for us newbies lol.
Over all we had a blast, the babies slept on their new bed set and were found snuggled up in angies bowl hammock this morning (the one I made my mom go back for cuz I had to have it!)... well everyone but padfoot he was in a big old covered round bed we got. We also got a den and won 2 raffles, we got a tshirt and two packs of stuff that had riki tiki in it for moony. Oh and of course Moony got a dozen of Angies eggs, well sorta... Dora stole all the fishes without rattles in them hehehehe she can get away with it cuz when she shakes them they dont make sounds and he dosent steal them back.
We decided that we are going to do at least one more show this year possibly both of the ones left in PA..... after that we will probably be doing 1-2 of the ones in PA.... we like to go with them they have fun so we are going to keep showing even if we dont place well.
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Post by momto2 on May 11, 2009 1:22:06 GMT -5
It was so nice meeting everybody face to face! I always wonder if there are real people inside these forums.  Yes, I did spend entirely too much money, but what better things are there to spend it on? You all have some reallly cute fuzzies and that Miss Lily, what a charmer but boy, did I get the business when I got home and the girls got a whiff of the strange hairs on my shirt! Angie, the girls REALLY like the box! They kept going in and out of it and yes, they did figure out that it makes a good trampoline! My husband even got a kick out of it when he put the end of the tube in and the kids kept running the whole way back and forth, not for any reason other than it was fun. How great it was, to see all the different shapes, colors, and sizes of our ferrets. I told Bill that maybe.... . Like I need one more project. I do have to agree though, that breeder ferret smell, PU! |
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Post by Angie on May 11, 2009 11:29:59 GMT -5
I am one of those odd people that actually like the smell of the big breeder hobs. I know I am warped. LOL
There is a smell to the ferret shows in the spring though.
Angie
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Post by stacylynn1985 on May 14, 2009 0:01:55 GMT -5
I will have to upload my photos tomorrow. I'll be at the CT Ferret Frolic this Saturday. Not an AFA show but the biggest thing in this state. I'll have all four of my guys with me plus two others I am ferret sitting. Going to be going crazy! |
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Post by stacylynn1985 on May 16, 2009 23:27:42 GMT -5
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Post by joclyn on Jun 9, 2009 20:51:35 GMT -5
heya!! i see pics of my kids...oberon, duncan and winston!! you took some good shots!
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Munchie Eins is getting ready!
