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| Our mission to adopt and be advocates for ferrets began several years ago after buying one for my daughter, then after meeting a ferret in person discovered how well this type of pet and I could get along, considering my lifestyle, patience level etc. I wanted a ferret for myself,but didn't want to buy from a pet store as with the first. Rather, I wanted to give a home to one in need of someone to love him/her. I let the people at the nearest pet store know I was willing to take in an unwanted ferret and within a month and a half had taken in three, and we are in a fairly rural area. I just couldn't say no to the people who needed to find a home for their ferret. I was even able to adopt a ferret in front of a pet store from someone who was going there to return the one he had bought earlier that week, said that a ferret just wasn't right for their home, and seeing that I was holding an older model of what he had there, figures that I would be able to give him a good home. Handed him over to me right there in front of the store. We now only take in the ferrets since it has slowed down considerably how many we get in and everyone who asks to adopt, wants to for the wrong reason! Tips For Ferret Owners and Prospective Owners, Poisonous Household Plants, NEGATIVE aspects, instincts, emotions, traits, Ferret’s Diet, loose stools and dental problems, Litter Training, Did you know Ferrets are thieves? Stealing, hairballs and ferrets, I've chosen to be an advocate for ferrets, playing with ferrets |
| Tips For Ferret Owners and Prospective Owners. Poisons and Poisonous Household Plants you should know about! Negative aspects of ferret ownership. Ferrets and their instincts, emotions, traits etc. Ferret’s Diet, loose stools and dental problems. Litter Training, Did you know Ferrets are thieves? Hairballs and ferrets, hairballs aren't just something cats get, and ferrets have more trouble with them because they can't regurgitate them back up like cats can. I've chosen to be an advocate for ferrets. Playing with ferrets is lots of fun! Stealing, one of ferrets favorite pastimes. |
| Watch these pretty ferrets run through a tube, wrestling, and playing as they have fun with each other. This is mock combat. Find money on this site, or maybe you can earn a job. Carma will be on your side if you donate site, or maybe you can earn a job. Carma will be on your side if you donate money to Ferret Rescue and Adoption of South Texas! Ferrets steal, ferrets hide their loot. Help us out, make a donation before we go out of business. Run, play, fight.!!! Ferrets playing, ferrets wrestle, ferrets play, ferrets jumping, ferrets fighting, running around, beautiful ferrets, ferret videos, fighting videos, baby ferret videos, fighting babies, baby ferrets. |
| This is Lucy, she is a healthy Ferret, and healthy Ferrets have a very healthy curiosity! I'm sure she saw the bags and thought "Hmmm, I wonder what's in those!?" Then, as she was lookin' around in the bag, she probably thought, "Hmmm, I wonder what's in this box right here"? I'm sure it didn't take very long for little1.1 pound Lucy to scatter the Fruit Loops. A healthy Ferret absolutely, CAN NOT continue their LIFE, without knowing what's inside ANYTHING. They're very good with "SPACE RELATIONS" too by the way! Many people discover that tyhe ferret they bought is too much for them to handle shortly after bringing it home, especially if they thought they didn't need a cage. This probably explains why so many we get in are still just babies "which is the perfect age for a ferret to bond with their new human". Once a baby bonds with us,we just got another ferret to live out it's life here. Soon we will be building a state-of-the-art ferret habitat with all the ammenities they could ever want! It'll be fabulous! |
| Tips For Ferret Owners and Prospective Owners, Poisonous Household Plants, NEGATIVE aspects, instincts, emotions, traits, Ferret’s Diet, loose stools and dental problems, Litter Training, Did you know Ferrets are thieves? Stealing, hairballs and ferrets, I've chosen to be an advocate for ferrets, playing with ferrets We also have a link to Pet Insurance |
We are a fledgling organization. We do not have our 501(c)(3) status with the IRS yet. It costs money to get this classification. If we had it, we would be able to qualify for grants to help make improvements to the ferrets living quarters, buy more toys to entertain them, etc. We need Your Donations! In the three years that this site has been up, we've received less than $300 in donations. I spend more than that every month out of my own pocket! This non-profit can grow, but we need the non-profit status with the IRS to be able to get GRANT MONEY! If you ferret lovers will help us by digging down in your pockets and send us a little LOVE, we can put up the filing fees and get it started. We got help from another rescue that is 501 certified with a peek at their filings and can just basically duplicate what they've done. We just don't have the funding. Look at the faces of these little guys. They have a great home here, they get to play until they conk out twice a day. Then I pick their sleeping little butts up and put them to bed in their cages. Please click on one of the "donate" buttons on this site and give a little money to show you support what we are doing here. We are far from the biggest or best rescue and shelter around but we have as much or more heart as any of them. PLEASE HELP! |
| "What we do, and How did we Get Started, Anyway?" |
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A little something about the "administrator" of Ferret Rescue and Adoption Center of South Texas. Greetings, my name is Micheal Forrest. I was born in Texas, and moved to Palacios as a small child. I later moved to Houston where I finished school, and began working as a mechanic, which I enjoyed for 20+ years. I then changed careers, becoming a Truck Driver. I drove a Big Truck and saw our Beautiful Country for 10 years or so. (I got married, kids, divorced, etc.) Now, I'm retired and living back in this small, coastal community, Palacios, Texas. I started taking in Ferrets sometime in 2005, after buying one, (a female) for my daughter. She couldn't keep her at her apartment, we found out later, so I babysat her, and discovered her to be rather destructive. Figuring it was probably just the animals' nature, I thought back to the day of her purchase. The store employees, even the book about ferrets we read, didn't warn of their destructive nature, which I felt I could deal with, since I don't have nice furniture, etc. but I know some people do and maybe they wouldn't want a pet that digs holes in their couch, chair or whatever, so I left my name and number at the local pet store and it wasn't long before we began getting calls from folks saying "take this thing off my hands, Please"! I started taking in unwanted ferrets, and now have (??) beautiful, curious, energetic, special, boys and girls. We will take your ferret(s) off your hands, and gratefully accept your donations. However, donations are not required for your ferret to have a home here! Gotta have some fine print somewhere... Micheal W. Forrest |
We want this site to be helpful and entertaining to you, our visitors so please make any suggestions you think may help and we'll consider all ideas of those who write. However, our first obligation is to our rescues, who's lives have been enhanced by the move to our shelter, where they now receive abundant love, the best medical care and finest nutrition available, not to mention lots of out of the cage play time and great games just for ferrets. We continually look for tips and other helpful information to ferret owners, so they can be the best ferret parents possible. Some information we list is from our own experience, and some from other sources. We've learned through experience and reading. We are still taking in ferrets and We are Taking Donations and really need them as well...Please Help with a Donation Today! If you know of a ferret that needs a home, please let us know the details and email to: michealforrest@ferretrescueandadoption.com 361.237.6051 We are approx. 100 miles southwest of Houston in Palacios, TX. |
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Ferret Rescue and Adoption of South Texas was started in a most unusual way. I founded the rescue after first buying a ferret
for my daughter at a pet store and I disliked ferrets as much as anybody who never owned or handled one could. My thoughts and
ideas were implanted in my head by people, friends and acquaintances and other various humans who all spoke with the demeanor
and assertiveness of a true ferret expert and the authority of a criminal courts judge. I didn’t think all the terrible things I was
hearing about ferrets could be true so I purchased a book about ferrets and got the prospective of the opposite type of person, a
ferret lover. In this book, I didn’t read any of the terrible things I’d heard about ferrets in the past, in fact this book made them
out to be the most perfect pet in the world! I read that even if I were allergic to cats and dogs these little animals were the thing
for me as they, for some reason had less of what dogs and cats have that make a person sneeze! Maybe my daughter was on to
something here!
I wasn't able to talk my then 18 year old daughter out of a ferret and if what I’d read was true, it wasn’t going to be that bad of
a pet anyway. She didn’t even live at home, she had her own apartment and they were much cheaper to buy than a dog at a measly
$100.00 and since they were small and the book said you can feed them cat food, heck she wouldn’t even need my help feeding it
either. The book said they were intelligent animals but the only thing alive and small that I’d ever heard of being intelligent were
birds and monkeys. I didn’t even think small dogs had very much going on upstairs and since we’re talking about ferrets, I’m going
to leave out my opinion on anything other than ferrets here.
So we got her a little girl ferret and she was given the name Jamie. We learned that nobody had been completely accurate about
ferrets and the ones who were most off base were friends and other people who had the worst to say about them. The ferret
lover/writer was wrong as we all know now that cat food other than the most expensive varieties aren’t okay to feed and the cost
is so high you might as well buy a good ferret food. Now having said all this, I figured that there may be others who read that book
and based they’re purchase on it only to find out as we did that ferrets have a bit of a destructive nature, are very persistent
when they want something and will stop at nothing to get it. They miss the potty box fairly often and although the book told that
ferrets like to steal and stash some of their human’s items, they forgot to mention that they sometimes alter the item in the process
so as to make it unusable to the human. We learned there are many characteristics about ferrets that were left out of the book
and since I felt we could deal with them on even a larger scale than one or two ferrets, I spoke to the owner of the local pet store
asking that she send any unhappy people who just bought a ferret our way. Within six months we had NINE ferrets, and all but
two came to us as babies. This was surprising to me because we are in more of a rural location with the closest large-ish city being
Victoria to the west about 60 miles.
Our mission as we’ve chosen to accept it, is simply this, any ferret we can help either by finding them a loving home or being that
loving home will be helped and it makes no difference to us which it is. We don’t go out of our way to make it so someone can get
past our application process to make them a happy ferret owner. We are looking for happy people who want to be parents of
happy ferrets. A happy ferret is most likely a healthy ferret, so a history of vetting their animals will be required to adopt from
us so I suppose one of our babies won't be able to be a person's first pet ever, which may be unfair but I'm sure there are other
rescues with more flexible standards.
for my daughter at a pet store and I disliked ferrets as much as anybody who never owned or handled one could. My thoughts and
ideas were implanted in my head by people, friends and acquaintances and other various humans who all spoke with the demeanor
and assertiveness of a true ferret expert and the authority of a criminal courts judge. I didn’t think all the terrible things I was
hearing about ferrets could be true so I purchased a book about ferrets and got the prospective of the opposite type of person, a
ferret lover. In this book, I didn’t read any of the terrible things I’d heard about ferrets in the past, in fact this book made them
out to be the most perfect pet in the world! I read that even if I were allergic to cats and dogs these little animals were the thing
for me as they, for some reason had less of what dogs and cats have that make a person sneeze! Maybe my daughter was on to
something here!
I wasn't able to talk my then 18 year old daughter out of a ferret and if what I’d read was true, it wasn’t going to be that bad of
a pet anyway. She didn’t even live at home, she had her own apartment and they were much cheaper to buy than a dog at a measly
$100.00 and since they were small and the book said you can feed them cat food, heck she wouldn’t even need my help feeding it
either. The book said they were intelligent animals but the only thing alive and small that I’d ever heard of being intelligent were
birds and monkeys. I didn’t even think small dogs had very much going on upstairs and since we’re talking about ferrets, I’m going
to leave out my opinion on anything other than ferrets here.
So we got her a little girl ferret and she was given the name Jamie. We learned that nobody had been completely accurate about
ferrets and the ones who were most off base were friends and other people who had the worst to say about them. The ferret
lover/writer was wrong as we all know now that cat food other than the most expensive varieties aren’t okay to feed and the cost
is so high you might as well buy a good ferret food. Now having said all this, I figured that there may be others who read that book
and based they’re purchase on it only to find out as we did that ferrets have a bit of a destructive nature, are very persistent
when they want something and will stop at nothing to get it. They miss the potty box fairly often and although the book told that
ferrets like to steal and stash some of their human’s items, they forgot to mention that they sometimes alter the item in the process
so as to make it unusable to the human. We learned there are many characteristics about ferrets that were left out of the book
and since I felt we could deal with them on even a larger scale than one or two ferrets, I spoke to the owner of the local pet store
asking that she send any unhappy people who just bought a ferret our way. Within six months we had NINE ferrets, and all but
two came to us as babies. This was surprising to me because we are in more of a rural location with the closest large-ish city being
Victoria to the west about 60 miles.
Our mission as we’ve chosen to accept it, is simply this, any ferret we can help either by finding them a loving home or being that
loving home will be helped and it makes no difference to us which it is. We don’t go out of our way to make it so someone can get
past our application process to make them a happy ferret owner. We are looking for happy people who want to be parents of
happy ferrets. A happy ferret is most likely a healthy ferret, so a history of vetting their animals will be required to adopt from
us so I suppose one of our babies won't be able to be a person's first pet ever, which may be unfair but I'm sure there are other
rescues with more flexible standards.