Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 at
7:40 am
and his friend called Wanda.
Wendell seems like quite a hip young mustelid, what with his spiky hair. I wonder if it’s gelled
He was a very lonely little boy, living in the woods all by himself until he meets up with Wanda. That’s about all I know of the tale.
The author is Jeanne Neumann and she originally wrote the story for her two daughters, then set about looking for a publisher to publish the story.
Once that was achieved, she is now telling the tale of Wendell to primary school kids who apparently are very enthralled about this weasel.
I think it’s great to see positive stories about mustelids in kids’ books and will certainly be getting this one for Imogen, our granddaughter.
She’s always hugging the ferrets when she comes over so I’m keen to reinforce her love of them by trying to get her presents which have something to do with ferrets or their cousins whenever possible
Sunday, April 6th, 2008 at
8:49 am
I’m sure you were aware of the fact that the Ferret Magazine decided against producing a physical magazine anymore and is now being produced online.
I just had a look at the
site and am impressed that it’s all there, available for anyone to read. I would have thought that they might have charged a fee for a member’s site but no … you can access all the articles, and also
ask the vet (who is Karen Rosenthal) questions about your ferret’s health – how good is that?!
But, of course, we all know how quickly ferrets go downhill when they’re sick so obviously if you think your ferret is ill, it’s best to take it to a vet to get it checked out chop chop.
While on the subject of medical things, I saw they had an article about
disseminated idiopathic myofasciitis (DIM). I lost one of my boys,
Otis, to what I’m sure was that in 2006, although at the time it was called Disseminated Idiopathic MYOSITIS - he went from being a big strong boy to weak and thin in a horribly short amount of time and died just 4 months after first showing signs of illness. It was awful, and at the time there was nothing the vet could do to help him. I was pleased to see that they now seem to have some sort of treatment for ferrets which have been diagnosed with DIM.
Well, one thing for sure – I’ll be bookmarking the Ferret Magazine and checking up on it often
Thursday, February 7th, 2008 at
12:12 am
Imagine this … a book about black-footed ferrets written at the time by a 9-year old boy called Andrew Licht, who then went on to illustrate the book and publish it when he was 10! How cool is that?
The book, “The Ferret Capture” came about when young Andrew went on a trip with his older brother and his father, who is a wildlife biologist with the National Park Service. His father Dan, was asked to come along to help catch the black-footed ferrets so that they could be implanted with tracking devices, as well as giving them vaccinations. How lucky were his sons to accompany him on such an adventure!
This is a preview of
“The Ferret Capture” – a book by Andrew Licht
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007 at
12:49 am
I am so thrilled!
A friend sent me an email with the link to the latest issue of Ferrets Magazine and told me to go and have a look. I did, and I was absolutely stunned to see that my site got a great write-up by Sukie Crandall.
I did have an email from her a while ago, asking for information about why I started my site, etc, and I replied but I never thought that I would be picked! There are so many good American sites, I didn’t think an Aussie one would be of interest )
Anyway, great information on that page about Ferret Fun on the Internet, so please take a look!
Ferret Magazine
