Cinders is a 2 year old Sable Male
Nola is a 3 year old Sable Female Blaze wanna be
Bootsie is a 1 1/2 year old D.E.W. Female
Surrender date June 1, 2007

Found a new 4-ever home October 13, 2007

These fur kids were removed from a neglect situation in Tonawanda New York

Update: October 21, 2007
Everybody is looking good now. Lots of running around and ferret mayhem. They discovered that they could get underneath the big throw rug today. Quite amusing to see some real carpet shark action.

Update: October 19, 2007
Thanks for the info. Tuesday's vet visit and shots really knocked the daylights out of the kids. They didn't play at all that I observed yesterday and showed all kinds of symptoms of stress. About the only thing positive I saw was that I did see all of them eat! By this morning Bootsie and Nala were at about 3/4 speed with Cinders at about 1/2 speed. This evening Bootsie is fully reloaded and Nala is about where I think she will normally be. She definitely gives up before the other two and is not so inclined to run around like crazy for long periods of time. Cinders looks like he is still only about 3/4 recovered - but he did go long enough to have a long spirited battle with Bootsie. Cinders does not seem to handle stress very well. He is also the only one to do flat ferret sometimes. I guess I'll find out over the next few weeks whether or not that is his normal behavior.

Update: October 17, 2007
Yep, we saw Dr. Chris today. They all got their shots (Distemper this time) with no problem. She found ear mites in Nala and is treating all three of them. Otherwise they seem to be in good health. We going back in three weeks for the rabies and last ear treatment. She did request that I ask you two questions. 1) How sure are you about their ages? 2) How long did you have them? Actually, I would be interested in more details of the back story of their rescue.  Bootsie is the first one to claim a toy. Actually, she has claimed three. None of them have really taken to thievery.......yet........

Update: October 15, 2007
Everybody looked pretty good today. Looks like there are no signs of stress anymore. However, they are not sleeping on the same schedule. Nala hardly bothered waking up this morning, while Bootsie only woke up long enough tonight to make it clear she wanted me to leave here alone and let her sleep. Of course this morning and this afternoon she was totally off the wall and didn't want to stop for anything!

Update: October 14, 2007
They are out playing right now. Actually, Nala is eating while Bootsie and Cinders play. I was a little concerned about Cinders yesterday as his poop looked terrible. But everything looks fine from last night and this morning. Bootsie still feels compelled to bite, though no blood drawn, so she can't be too serious. As I recall, both Ak and Dak did this in the beginning. Wish I could remember what the trick was to make them stop. She is also the most independent and I am pretty sure she will be the one to get into trouble first!

Update: October 13, 2007
Well, their all asleep now. One of them is a talker, but I haven't figured out which yet. Nala actually crashed early, and then Cinders bowed out before Bootsie. She was still going when I decide it was time for all of us to go to sleep.
zzzz.......
Just had to tell you about Bootsie's computer skills. While I was cleaning the cage today I saw that Bootsie had gotten onto the computer desk. I didn't worry about it since there is nothing there she can hurt herself with and I could see how she got up and how she would get down. I knew she would walk all over the keys, but what was the chance she would actually do anything that mattered?? After they all went back to sleep I went to the computer. Everything looked normal until I started walking. My computer was talking to me!! Every time I did something the computer told me what I was doing! Turns out that the computer has a feature that allows people who have trouble seeing the screen to hear what the computer is doing. It says things like "Closing Safari" (Safari is the apple web browser). It was very spooky at first. It's actually pretty cool. Seems that Bootsie turned this feature on. Maybe she is secretly a computer genius? 

They all look pretty good these days. I put up pictures of them on my Cornell web page:

http://www.math.cornell.edu/~ebs