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“Blizzard was a wonderful ambassador and this memorial is a great way to recognize his contribution wherever you took him. Congrats to you and your wife for giving him the opportunity to show people what a great and loving friend ferrets can be.”
--Barb and the Underfoot Family,
Trish Walther, St. Peters MO, as written on Ferret-Talk2
9/26/06 Blizzard
in the Park
photo right: Ted Ruegsegger
Please click here for another album featuring Blizzard the
Ferret.
Additional photos below. Please click each one.
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Blizzard has been featured in magazines and a calendar from coast to coast:
November 2008: The Blizzard Memorial Fund stores open up. We thank Kat Parsons for her work. http://www.cafepress.com/katparsons and http://www.cafepress.com/katparsons2 and http://www.cafepress.com/katparsons3
 October 2008: Blizzard had a patch made after him for the Pittsburgh Ferret Symposium. The 2008 Blizzard Pittsburgh Patch. The photo below, taken in Shenandoah National Park, was the inspiration for the patch.
August 2008: Blizzard named as a 2009 Ferrets of the FML Calendar ferret.
 May 2008: Blizzard was the subject of animal and landscape photographer Valerie Garvey of Visions by Valerie. Photo at right.
January 2008: Blizzard, with Dad Mark, win the Ferrets Magazine Reader Reward. Sponsored by Totally Ferret.
Starting November 2007: Featured photo on the Monroe Animal Hospital (Monroe, New Jersey) website. Click here.
9/1/07; Mineral Bluff, GA: Blizzard named as a select few to be featured in the 2008 Ferrets of the FML Calendar as Mr. January! A collage of 4 photos plus an additional one awaits!
Please visit:http://www.supportourshelters.org/FML_Calendar.html
for all the order info. Thank you for helping SOS help shelter ferrets.
Some of the things that SOS is helping shelters with your support is
Melatonin Implants, ADV test kits, supplies such as food, etc. and
vet bills for shelter kids. You make all this possible with your
donations.
 Ferrets Anonymous Magazine, San Diego, CA
June 2006 issue, Ferrevite
to the Rescue: Blizzard
Investigates Someone Else’s Home. SEE PAGE 2
Ferrets Anonymous Magazine, San Diego, CA
April 2006 issue, Blizzard
does Times Square, SEE PAGE 2
PawPrints of America Ferrets Corner, Alabama, website
Ferret of the Month,
December 2005 (link will only show The Blizz Meister
through the end of 2005)
The Capitol Hill Rag, Washington DC
August 2005 issue, follow-up
to last month, The Last Word
Ferrets Anonymous Magazine, San Diego, CA
August 2005 issue, SEE
PAGE 3
The Capitol Hill Rag, Washington DC
July 2005 issue featuring their annual
Pet Photo Contest. Blizzard, who is illegal in the District
of Columbia, is the only ferret and came in 2nd!
Ferrets Anonymous Magazine, San Diego, CA
March 2004 issue
(SEE PAGE 9) Ferret Bulletin featuring Blizzard
Short Video Clips of Blizzard
One
Two (This is a MUST SEE)
Three
Blizzard lived in northwestern Virginia.
He was born 12/18/2002 at Marshall Farms in New York State. He was helped over The Rainbow Bridge on 8/07/08 at approximately 5:45am in Fairfax, Virginia.
Blizzard, in his geneology, is a decendant from the Euopean
Polecat (specifically from England), so we understand. His
first cousin in the USA is the American Black-Footed Ferret.
Blizzard's human Dad had the opportunity to take some pictures
of the BFF. They were featured in the November 2005 issue
of Ferrets Anonymous Newletter. Please
click here and turn to page 3.
As many of you know Blizzard had an adverse reaction to a rabies vaccine on 7/12/07. After two doctors worked on him for a 1/2 hour, he remained with this world for almost 13 more months enjoying everyday. However, Mongo was not as lucky. The Mongo Memorial Distemper Titer Study Fund has been set up i n honor of Mongo, Dr. Heller, with support from the American Ferret Association is heading up a study to measure the titer levels in ferrets who have previously been vaccinated against canine distemper virus. The study will consist of ferrets of various ages with varying vaccination histories.
 Click
the logo for the Ferrets Anonymous website. Legalize domestic
ferrets in California!
Ferreting Out The Truth
article from the Washington Post, Wednesday, November 9, 2005;
Page C16
There are about 8 million pet ferrets in the United States.
Ferrets have been kept as pets for more than 2,500 years.
Females are called jills, males are hobs, babies are kits
and a group is called a business. Average lifespan: six to
eight years. Cousins of weasels, skunks and minks. They are
not rodents. They are perfectly built for chasing small animals
out of their holes, thus the term "ferret out" --
as in, "ferret out the truth."
The black-footed ferret, the only wild ferret native to North
America, is endangered because its main food source, the prairie
dog, has largely disappeared.
SOURCES: American Ferret Association, U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Service
Ferret, or ermine, on a plane. Photo taken May 2008 in Cancun, Mexico.
Order your SOS Ferrets of the FML Calendar at: http://www.supportourshelters.org/FML_Calendar.html
Order your 2008 Blizzard Pittsburgh Patch at:
http://www.supportourshelters.org/patches.html
Thinking of Blizzard: Little Ferret's Prayer
On December 18, 2008 Blizzard would have been 6 years old.
Photo of girl with Blizzard: Taken 7/1/08 while hiking with Emily (girl in photo), Dagmar and Blizzard's human Dad, along the Appalachian Trail in the George Thompson Wildlife Management Area (Virginia).
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"...your
little Blizzard is beautiful."
Blizzard
was the subject of environmental photographer Theodore Ruegsegger
while taking notice of The Blizzard while walking through
Ellanor C. Lawrence County Park. For Mr. Ruegsegger's work
on Blizzard in 2004.
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