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Christmas in October, 2012 |
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Christmas in October, 2012 |
Our Christmas tree will have ferret angels as ornaments with our shelter kids' names on them, you can select an ornament write the donation you wish to give to that fur kid and drop your donation and angel into the box, before the end of the day we will draw the name of the winner for the Christmas Angel prize.
Sarah: Oh, boy! Oh, boy! It's coming! It's coming! It's almost here! Yippee! Everyone dance the happy dance!!
Daisy: Will you calm down! Dance the happy dance for what? What's coming? What's almost here?
Sarah: Christmas! Yippee! Yahoo! It's almost here!
Daisy: Sarah, will you settle down. It's September. Christmas won't be here for months yet.
Sarah: No, not the real Christmas, silly! Christmas in October, the Ferret Farm's annual fundraiser. It's happening this year on Saturday, October 6th. It starts at 10:00 a.m. and goes on until everyone has had enough fun, we're all pooped out and napping all over the place!
Daisy: So you're saying that Lakeroad Ferret Rescue/Shelter, Inc. actually has two Christmas' a year instead of just one.
Sarah: Yup! That's how Shelter Mum has arranged it.
Daisy: What happens at Christmas in October?
Sarah: Oh, that's right! You came to the Shelter in December of 2011 so you missed last year's. Well it starts off with Ferret Playtime and Meet and Greet from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Then we move on to a fall cookout lunch at noon. All the humans bring a dish to pass. Then after lunch we go to the Ferret Matches.
Daisy: What are the Ferret Matches?
Sarah: Only the coolest set of games any ferret could ever what to play and there are prizes, too! There are two prizes for the best look-alike pair of ferrets, there's a prize each for Mr. Heavy Weight and Miss Dainty and Sweet, there's a prize for the Biggest Ears, the Longest Tail. Then there's the Paper Bag Escape, that's my favorite!
Daisy: How do you play it?
Sarah: Well the ferret goes inside a paper bag and the human rolls up the paper bag and the first ferret to get out of his/her bag wins the prize!
Daisy: And is that the end of the day?
Sarah: Oh, no! Not by any means! We're only half done at that point! At 2:00 p.m. we have the Used Ferret Items Auction and raffle drawings. At 3:00 p.m., the pièce de résistance -- the event that makes the whole day worthwhile! Nothing less than the Christmas Exchange, itself! Everybody gets to play this game. The only thing Shelter Mum asks is that you bring a NEW ferret item that you would want your furkid to have. You can wrap the gift if you want or present it unwrapped, either way. Ms. Wendy took lots of pictures at last year's Christmas in October. You can check them all out here, Daisy, and the newsletter Possum wrote up about the whole event. Maybe you can get some cub reporter training while you're at it.
Daisy: Maybe you could, too! Ha! Ha! Is this open only to people with furkids?
Sarah: No, it's open to anybody who wants to come, from anywhere at all, whether they have furkids or not. But just because you don't have a furkid doesn't mean you have to miss out on the fun of spending the day with one. Just click here to email Shelter Mum and she can arrange to match you up with a furkid of your own for the event.
Daisy: Boy! How cool would that be?! You know if a human and a ferret got matched up for Christmas in October and then ended up bonding over the course of the day, it might lead to a 4-ever home for some lucky ferret.
Sarah: Well that's the ultimate purpose behind everything that Shelter Mum does for us here at Lakeroad. It's all about finding good, loving homes for all us furkids. We are all happy and loved by Shelter Mum and all her helpers here at the farm but gosh, nothing beats having a 4-ever home and a family of humans to call your own. That'd be the best Christmas present a furkid could get any time of the year.
The Lakeroad Ferret Farm Rescue/Shelter, Inc. would like to thank the following for their generous donations:
• Ferret Depot
• Performance Foods, makers of Totally Ferret
• Priscilla G. - Ralph's Snack and Snooze Raffle basket
• Wysong