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Holiday
Adoption Policies
It
is shelter policy not to adopt animals during the month of
December. You are encouraged to visit a shelter and meet the
animals. Because of the problems of giving animals as
gifts, adoptions will not be done. Adoptions will reopen January
1.
General
Policies
All
animals (except where noted) are in good health, and come with
all of their shots. Adoption fees are determined by each individual
shelter operator, but generally adoption fees are $75 for singles,
$125 for pairs of ferrets under 4 years of age. Ferrets
over 4 years of age are $50 for a single ferret or $90 for
a pair. This includes rabies and distemper vaccinations. All
ferrets have been checked by a vet, and are in good health
at the time of this writing except where specially noted.
Cages,
food, shots, and future vet bills are the responsibility of
the new owner. The shelters and MaFF will be willing
to give you all the information, encouragement, and recommendations
that you need about your new pet. Actually, you'll be
lucky to get us to stop talking once we've started...
It
is shelter policy not to adopt or foster ferrets out to households
with young children. This is to safeguard both the ferret
and child. Ferrets, because of their physical characteristics,
must be handled in a responsible manner or they could sustain
injury to their spinal columns.
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Foster
Homes and Halfway Houses
A
halfway house is a home which can take ferrets in from certain
area contacts, get their preliminary vet work done, and get
them ready to go up for adoption, then turn them into the shelter
to be adopted.
A
foster home is a home which takes (on a temporary basis) shelter
ferrets who are in need of special attention, caring for them,
working with them until they are ready for adoption, then returning
them to the shelter to be adopted.
Foster
homes must work out the specifics of vet care reimbursement
with the shelter whose ferrets they are working with. Guidelines
exist, but the actual details are left entirely up to the shelter
operator.
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