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Trish’s story ...

 

Its all Lilly‘s fault - she was my first ferret, we met when I took a friend who was looking for a ferret as a pet.  At five weeks old Lilly was the quiet one in the bunch, she was a tiny little fur ball that licked me and then fell asleep in the palm of my hand, that was me hooked! From when I brought Lilly home at eight weeks old we were virtually inseparable. Lilly went every where with me that I could take her, most of the time asleep down the front of my jumper. At going on six years old Lilly is the most laid back ferret you will ever meet. She won her first show as a kit and that’s when I got hooked on showing.  It was at this show where I met Dave and Diane who  run the ferret rescue at Carlisle and joined the show circuit and from them gained most of my knowledge of ferrets.  

 

Over the following years I started taking in unwanted ferrets and helping Dave and Diane doing ferret racing and PR at the local country shows. I joined the Cambridge ferret rescue and we would all travel down to the big country shows in Cambridge and surrounding area where I won lots of trophy’s and rosettes with my rescued ferrets.

 

Through these events our reputation grew for showing the public what loving and fun filled little pets ferrets are.

 

Of course there is a limit to the amount of ferrets you can keep and look after properly and  as much as I would like to keep every ferret that’s comes in  I had to start re-homing  like Dave and Diane  so we joined together to form the Lakes and Borders Ferret Welfare and Rescue in the winter of 2008.