2006

IFC Ferret Aid 2006 - June 23-25th
Thank you to everyone who helped make IFC Ferret Aid 2006 such a wonderful success! Click here to visit the website for the conference!

2005

Frolic in High Park - September 17, 2005
Hello ferret friends! I just wanted to send a HUGE thank you to everyone that made it out to the frolic on Saturday. We also must apologize to those of you who didn't make it because of the road closures.

We were not made aware that the road into High Park would be closed on Saturday and though this made it very difficult for us all to get into the park and to the frolic, many of you still came and had fun. For all of you who couldn't make it in, i am so sorry and we are working with High Park now to ensure this never happens again for our future frolics.

The best dressed ferret this year was dressed as a school girl though the cheerleaders were just as adorable!

Many thanks to Paige, Olympia, Shannon, Matt, Kim and many others who helped make this frolic a success. You all pulled through and helped out with a lot of stress this time around. THANK YOU!!!

We hope to see you all again next September for the 9th annual frolic at High Park :)

PRIDE Toronto 2005
Our weekend total was over $3,200!!! Pride Toronto is cutting us a check for a little over 1/2 of that total and we'll be receiving a little over $1,600. It's thanks to all of you that this was possible. THANK YOU so much!

All About Pets 2005
Thank you everyone for your support and help with the FAS booth at the All About Pets Show 2005!


2004

October 9th
Thank you Paige and Olympia for representing FAS at the St. Lawrence Market!

September 18th
We had a fantastic time at our annual Ferret Frolic in High Park. Thanks to everyone who came out for some ferrety-fun and the Ferret Store.com for their support as well. We hope to see everyone again next year!

July 10th
Thanks to everyone who donated items for us to sell at our annual Yard Sale. Especially our Hostess-With-The-Most'ess who let her front yard be taken over yet again for the sake raising much needed funds ($815!!!) for the shelter!

June 25-27th
The Ferret Aid Society is proud to to have been part of Toronto Pride 2004. Thanks so much to all the volunteers who came out to support our booth and participate in the parade. Thanks also to the wonderful donors who contributed prizes for our fund raising efforts. And of course, to Toronto Pride and everyone who came out in support of this weekend and our shelter!

June 11th - 13th
Thanks to the folks from the Great Canadian Outdoor Expo for a wonderful weekend show in Woodstock, Ontario!

June 12th
Thank you to the promoters of Digital Blasphemy for their contribution of $1 per ticket to the shelter.

April 9-11th
Thanks to all the great people who donated, bidded and put themselves on the auction block for the shelter! Your effort and generosity was greatly appreciated and $1700 was raised for the care of our fuzzies!

February 28th
We had a great time at the 2004 All About Pets Show in Mississauga!

2003

October 25th 2003
You better watch out....you better not cry...he's gonna find out, who's naughty or nice! Santa Claws is coming to town!

Saturday October 25th from 1-4pm, have you and/or your pet's photo taken with the man in red! Join us at The Animal Hospital of High Park 3194 Dundas St. W. for this afternoon event of fun! Photos will be delivered in November. Proceeds to benefit The Ferret Aid Society.

October 3-5
The International Ferret Congress presented their 2003 International Ferret Symposium at the Holiday Inn Airport, North Atlanta, Georgia.

It featured a host of guest speakers including Dr. Deborah Kemmerer, Dr. Hanneke Moorman, Dr. Jerry Murray, Dr. Bruce Williams and Dr. Heather Wilson. Randy was fortunate enough to be able to attend and speak at the conference this year.

September 26-28
We had a wonderful time at the Totally Pets show which was held at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga.

September 13
Thank you to everyone who participated in our annual Ferret Frolic and helped make it a huge success! Also, thank you to the Toronto Sun for their coverage of the event and PetSmart Mississauga for their prize donations!

Pomper - 1st place for Best Dressed	Starling - Runner-up for Best Dressed
Jazz - 1st Place for Tube Racing	Dusty - 1st Place for Bag-Tipping
Simon - 1st Place for Longest Stand	Simba - 1st Place for Longest Stand

September 4
We were at this year's Ride 4 Pets at Richmond Green.

August 23rd
We had our annual garage sale fund-raiser on Aug 23. The sale took place in the Beaches area of Toronto and over $600 was raised for our shelter!

June 28-29
F.A.S. volunteers were busy Toonie-Driving, Parading and running a booth at Toronto Pride 2003. Congratulations to the dedicated vounteers who braved the rain and heat to raise $1,134.48 for the shelter! We have begun our Pride Gallery of the event and encourage anyone with pics of our volunteers Toonie Driving, in the parade or at the booth to send them in so we can post them here on the site. The turn-out was much smaller than last year because of SARS and a poor weather forecast but people still came out to have a good time. With thanks to the Gay Pride Committee of 2003 for providing us with this wonderful opportunity to fund raise for the ferrets in our shelter.

Feb. 22
Saturday February 22nd at the Shamrock and Thistle Pub saw us put on our Second Annual Valentine's Day Auction! Prizes included products from M&M Meat Shop, Calvin Klein, Avon and more. Thanks again to the Shamrock and Thistle Pub for their generous sponsorship.

2002

With thanks to the Gay Pride Committee of 2002, we were fortunate enough to raise over $1,000 to go towards the ferrets in our care.

2001

Our Ferret Frolic was a success!

Ceilidh Saturday Sept. 22, 2001 - Our Ceilidh was a success! With thanks to the Shamrock and Thistle Pub and everyone who participated, we raised $400.

2000

July 19
We had a lot of fun at our Ferret Frolic!

September
Ferrets 2000 was a success! It was hosted here in Toronto, Canada. Read Harley's account of the event:

I was busy at Ferrets 2000 being spoiled by all my new friends. I have LOTS to tell you, so sit tight.

Thursday at the meet and greet, mommie met Harvey & Helga Clark. They are awesome. A lot of people were at the meet & Greet and a lot of people were having a good time!

Friday a bunch of people went to the zoo to see the Black Footed Ferrets. Mommie sayz it was cool. She said the bus ride was cool and made her feel like she was in school again...

Friday night, mommie was mommie-napped by auntie Phyllis & Auntie Bev. They went to a stinkie Karaoke bar and mommie sang. The "girls" didn't get back to their beds until way after 4 in the morning....mommie and aunties alike were hurting on Saturday morning.

Saturday's speakers were amazing and Bob Church wore a nice shirt to match mommie's hair. It was so cool when mommie brought me down from MY hotel room to meet everyone. Aunties Pat, Rebecca, Linda and more kissed me so hard, i thought my other eye would pop out. When Dr. Williams saw me, he said "oh no! now no one's going to pay attention to my lecture if Harley's here!"...well, that wasn't true at all, Dr. Williams was fabulous!

I also got to meet Gary and thank him for making Timmy's. tle cuddled me gently and told me how brave I was. Chris roughed me up a bit with kisses and told me I was very cute.....mommie disappeared 1/2 way through Dr. William's lecture and when she got back, I was sent to her hotel room.

Mommie had to go because it was time to let Tugger cross the bridge...she was very sad and cried a lot. All of the guests at ferrets 2000 were loving and sweet to her. She cried even harder.

That evening, everyone had a nice dinner together and Bill Gruber was awarded the FML hero of the year! He's my hero too mommie was excited because she got to sit beside Dr. Williams.

After dinner all of them went into the pub (again) for some laughs.

Sunday morning, the shelter lost another fur kid. Phoenix was in Auntie Paige's care and was very advanced Adrenal. she died in her sleep, Auntie Paige took it very hard.

After hearing Chris speak on responsible breeding in the morning, tle took to the stage and her heartfelt talk made us all cry. We were running real late so we took a short break. Mommie was glad we were late because she didn't have her talk prepared. she wrote it during the break (she's gonna kill me for telling you that).

Auntie Rebecca & Sara took home Jill (of Jack & Jill, of which Jack had passed away) and Ronnie took home Hailey & Raz. Mommie was happy they all went to good homes.

All in all, everyone had a great time, and mommie especially felt happy. I'm so glad I was a part of this event and I loved meeting everyone and being spoiled too.

Love, Harley "Bug"

1999

October
Harley's Hallowe'en Celebrity Auction was held at the Everest Bar & Cafe in downtown Toronto.