We need your donations to stay open! Please donate if you can!
if you have items that any small animal can use we can distribute them to other fine shelters who are also 501-c-3 approved such as the Junior Humane Society in our area.
The following is a copy of the video article shown on the internationally sundicated tv show "Animal Rescue", first aired on Oct. 10th, 2008
The Ferret & Dove Sanctuary can accept No further intakes of animals from the general public. The only exceptions we can make are for active duty military or the animal police which can each show us legitimate I.D. for their genuine emergency animal rescues or turned-in animals. Since our Aug 1st, 2003 Incorporation, we've adopted out 283(!) ferrets, 32 rabbits, 20 guinea pigs (cavy),112 doves(Notice!:NO further doves available for adoption!!!) and 2 chinchillas to caring, loving homes. This is a 501-c (3) approved domestic animal shelter, and a registered non-profit business in the State of Florida. We are licensed for all mammals (except monkeys) and for birds. (Notice, repeat!: NO further doves are available for adoption!)Fl. Lic. number: ESC 9841
Please help! Make a donation for the animals!
Thank you, so much!
(here is our 40-second commercial asking for help, featuring some volunteers from a local middle-school who came to assist us during the late spring of 2007 with their teachers (not shown, but they were there :) which you might have seen on some of your local American television stations....)
NOTICE!: We Have NO further Doves for adoption! also; This shelter is also our home (as well as the home and Sanctuary for the animals and birds who must remain in permanent residence )
No "Walk-in's"; This Is NOT A STORE! You must call (850) 475-0780 or e-mail one of the following for an appointment;
Mrs_Catseye@hotmail.com winnersm@bellsouth.net We're busy with care for these animals and birds most of our days and nights and if you might rather be treated as guests in our home than rude bargers-in, show some consideration for the retired folks already doing all the work.
we can accept No further intakes from the general public. The only exceptions we can make are for active duty military or the animal police which can each show us legitimate I.D. for their genuine emergency animal rescues or turned-in animals.
Please visit our Lottery book site. Anyone interested in the multi state Mega Millions or Powerball lotteries may find it helpful.
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The Ferret And Dove Sanctuary Inc.
We believe in the rights of all creatures to their lives in comfort .
A registered non-profit, 501c(3), registration number for this facility in Florida is CH2044. We are licensed in Florida for all mammals (except monkeys) and for birds. Fl. Lic. number: ESC 9841
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Raffle drawing of Fundraiser for The Ferret & Dove Sanctuary, Inc.
Drawing date July 31st, 2008
(this fundraiser raised $252.00 to help pay part of our veterinarian's bill for the animals and birds, Thanks to everyone who supported it!)
CONGRATULATIONS to all the winners and Thank You everyone for supporting us for this fundraiser!
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This Sanctuary is offering three different kinds of books for sale, the first is a cookbook entitled "Ferretly Fine & Doverly Home Cooking" $15.95, payable to The Ferret & Dove Sanctuary either to our address (see bottom of page) or via the paypal "make a donation" buttons here for credit cards.-~*~*~*~*~*~*~ the second is a nice children's book written by our Sanctuary's Pres., Wes Hurley, and illustrated by director Susie Lee entitled "How the Winter Frog came to was...or How to get a Surpirise on Thanksgiving", $19.95 each, same ordering info as the first book, all pre-orders will be signed by the author and the illustrator...___....___.... and the third book is "Winners' Mindset on Lotteries" written by Wes Hurley, available either as an e-book for $8.00 from us or as a printed out book for $15.95, includes shipping and handling. All proceeds go to the Sanctuary. Click on the yahoo icon to see the cover of the lottery book and all about it, then return here and click on the "make a donation" button to buy your book
Currently on Petfinder there will be only a Very Few adoptable pets; some of them are pets available through other shelters such as The Junior Humane Society of Escambia County, Florida. There is more about us and what we have been doing over the last few years on our own actual home-page , here ... http://www.angelfire.com/theforce/ferret_rescuer/index.html
News
During the first week of September, 2007, we were interviewed by a reporter from the WKRG tv station of Mobile, Alabama.
here is the link to that interview... (copy and paste to your browser)
http://wkrg.com/news/article/sanctuary_providing_homes_for_ferrets_and_doves/4727/
We have very recently acheived 283 ferret adoptions since our incorporation on August 3rd, 2003, and also we have adopted out 112 domestic doves, 32 rabbits , 23 guinea pigs and 2 chinchillas. No thanks to the Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2004 and 2005, we have been a Very busy little "mom-and-pop" shelter. But it sure is worth it to see a homeless ferret made deliriously happy by picking out their new families and going home to stay with them! Our very best adoptions are made when people bring their pet ferret(s) with them to allow the ferrets to choose their new playmates. For those few ferrets who like people but Don't like other ferrets, their reactions to a prospective adoptor speaks volumes!
Who We Are
We are here...Http://www.angelfire.com/theforce/ferret_rescuer/index.html
...all about us, all the ferrets' stories, they're all on that page. So are the stories and descriptions of the non-adoptables who really need your help as sponsors. There are several "make a donation" buttons supplied by PayPal on that page. Every cent goes wholly and entirely to the care, supplies and veterinary medical expenses of all the animals and birds.
Adopting a friend
Here are our basic adoption requirements... ADOPTION GUIDELINES forThe Ferret & Dove Sanctuary, Inc. 3815 Tom Lane Dr., Pensacola, Fl. 32504 Ph. (850) 475-0780 Thinking About Adopting a Ferret? Well and good. On the next several pages, you?ll read what?s needed to keep and take care of your ferret(s).
Special Note!: If anyone lives in a dwelling/apt./condo/etc. which they do Not own, we will need a notarized statement that it is okay with the owner or landlord to have these pets, and ***working*** phone numbers of the owners or landlords so that we may verify this permission. Also, those of you with roommates, please have the courtesy to consult with them, beforehand.
However, You Can NOT Adopt a Ferret IF...
You are unwilling to provide proof, with picture identification(drivers license, I.D.card, etc)that the statements you give on the adoption form are TRUE and can be verified before any animal leaves this shelter.
You have or play loud noise (or someone in your household loudly plays heavy metal, loud rap, or other loud, disruptive noisy stuff). Ferrets are sensitive and their nervous systems are unequipped to handle a lot of noisy, disruptive racket.
(We strongly recommend against adoption on this point, but will make a rare exception if you already have a ferret which is plainly being well taken care of) If you have babies and/or children from infancy through 6 years of age. Your young children require ALL of your parental attention and They Should Have That! Ferrets as pets require nearly as much attention as that you would give another child. We would suggest an older cat or a grown and broken-in young dog as a possible pet for your family with very young children.
If you are unwilling to learn about ferret care or unwilling to gather the supplies to create a healthy habitat, or unwilling to support them through their medical problems at an accredited veterinary hospital.
The Sanctuary reserves the right of refusal to any person or persons not willing to comply with ALL requirements set down by these rules of adoption.
If you can not comply with all of the above , you need not go further, there will be no adoption .
However if you are willing to create a good home for your ferret(s) here is some of what you will need
(the following six pages lists of requirements is adapted from http://ferretcentral.org/... please go there for well researched articles on basic ferret care and needs) als...
Here is a link to health concerns for pigeons and doves.........
http://www.onlinehealing.co.uk/healing/pigeons.htm
Ferrets and Man : Generalized history.........
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Ferrets have been used primarily for vermin control or hunting small game animals since they first were domesticated.
In 1758 Linnaeus named the ferret Mustela Furo. His name prior to that had been, in Latin, first viverra, later furectus, furetus and furo.
- The famous Greek playwright Aristophanes mentioned ferrets in his satire 'The Acheans' around the year 450 B.C. He compared these people with ferrets, who had already established a reputation for themselves as thieves. The Greeks knew about ferrets, but they were not kept by them.
- Recent diggings in the southwest of Europe have uncovered skeletons of ferrets dating back to 1600 years B.C. But at that time there were no rabbits, so they must have used them for mice control.
- Aristotle wrote about 'iktis', which means domesticated ferrets, around the year 350 B.C.
- Caesar Augustus sent ferrets (named 'viverrae' by Plinius) to the Balearic Islands to control the rabbit plagues in 6 B.C.
- Pliny (23-79 A.D.) mentions the rabbit and the ferret, as does Isidore of Seville in 600 A.D.
- Medieval manuscripts mostly recited Aristotle, until the great hunting manuscripts appear. There is a reference to the use of ferrets by the Emperor Frederick II of Germany in 1245. It is said that Genghis Khan used them in a hunting circle at Termed in 1221 A.D.
- The Normans introduced the rabbit into Britain at the end of the 11th or in the beginning of the 12th century and the first entry of the ferret in Britain is in 1223 A.D.
- The best manuscript is the Livre de Chasse (the book of the hunt) of Gaston Phebus, Comte de Foix, who reigned for more than two principalities in southern France and northern Spain, 1390 A.D.
- In the Middle Ages in England they restricted the ownership of ferrets to those earning 40 shillings (about $300 today) or more a year.
- The time of the appearance of the white, pink-eyed ferret is unknown, the first drawing of a white, pink-eyed ferret is in the Sherborne Missal ± 1300 A.D. and the first reference is by implication in 1421 A.D. in a translation of a French poem into English as 'The Siege of Thebes' by John of Lydgate (Owen 1969).
- The ferret is described in 1551 as being of the colour of wool stained by urine (Gesner 1551).
- They have been in America for more than 300 years. European polecats mated with ferrets were later imported into New Zealand for rabbit control.
(Now people finally realize what a lovely pet this domestic animal really is!)
With the Moslem conquest of Spain in the 8th century, ferrets became known to the Arabs and spread through the more temperate parts of the Moslem world under the name "Furo." These little beasts were prized by the elite for their exceptional hunting ability, as were hawks. It was relatively common for ferrets to be released into the underbrush to flush out game birds which the falcons would bring down. The return of the Crusaders through Italy and Byzantium, brought a new hunting associate to Western and Central Europe. Having found ferrets living in palaces and granaries to control the ubiquitous mice and rats in southern Europe and the Near and Middle East, the knights brought along and introduced ferrets to their manor houses for much the same purposes: Live-in rat-catchers and rabbit-hunting companions. They were so accepted as residents of great homes that DaVinci painted one as the companion to a noble woman in "Lady with Ermine" (now in the Czartoryski Museum, Krakow), though the ferret has been named an "ermine" as would better befit a noble Lady. Gradually ferrets spread throughout Europe and became common farm animals, used mainly as vermin control in barns and granaries. Ferrets would remain the primary rodent catcher in Europe until the late eighteenth century, when cats, no longer be considered to be the consort of the devil, would usurp this role.Ferrets were replaced mostly by cats because whole ferrets stink to high heaven and cats don't (spay and neuter is a 20th century device), whole ferrets are not as friendly as cats, and it was much easier to control the activities of cats due to their larger size. So, with the passing of superstition, the cat became the more acceptable rat slayer / companion animal. However, ferrets maintained their place in the rural areas where a more reliable hunting companion than a cat was needed. Even today working ferrets are kept on European farms. Ferrets have become one of the primary tools associated with poachers. The archtype of the poacher wears a baggy trenchcoat to hide his brace of birds or rabbits, carrying one or two ferrets in bag or inside pocket, a net and snare in the pockets, a short-barrelled shotgun strapped in, and he is accompanied by a Jack Russell terrier.
In this century, ferrets have been put to other uses. In the forties and fifties in the USA and Canada, they were bred and raised for their fur (fur labels will now generally read ferret fur as "fitch")which was used in making fake mink coats, a business now happily ended. The fluffier ferrets found in your household today are likely descendents of these animals.
Other industrial applications of ferret skills have been the stringing of electrical and telephone cables. As recently as the late 1960's, Boeing Aircraft Corporation in Seattle and British Columbia Telephones used ferrets to lay the guidewires for pulling the heavier cables through conduits. (Just think, that jet plane you flew in may have been ferret strung.)
Come Visit Us!
Please visit our web-page, Over Loaded with Lots of pictures! here...
http://www.angelfire.com/theforce/ferret_rescuer/index.html
Find us using www.mapquest.com. Please call for a visiting appointment, unless you might like to help volunteer to assist us in cleaning up after all the fur-babies-
See pictures here...
http://www.angelfire.com/theforce/ferret_rescuer/index.html
or visit our most adoptable adoptables here...
http://www.petfinder.org/shelters/FL571.htm
Free online training videos from Animal Planet....
The Ferret And Dove Sanctuary Inc. 3815 Tom Lane Drive
Pensacola, FL 32504
Phone: 850-475-0780
A registered non-profit, 501c(3). We are licensed in Florida for all mammals (except monkeys) and for birds. Fl. Lic. number: ESC 9841
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