Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc.

Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. The Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. (FACT) is a non-profit, humane and educational 501(c)3 charitable organization founded in January, 1991.

FACT is dedicated to helping ferret owners, caretakers, and most importantly, the ferrets themselves. FACT provides:

Placement & Behavioral Counseling
Ferret Shelter & Adoption Services
Multi Level Education for Both Owners and Service Providers
Quality Care & Health Information
Permanent Care for Ill/Elderly Ferrets
Supports Continuing Ferret Health Care Studies
Support for Other Ferret Shelters

Don't sneeze or you might miss it: a big holiday sale at My Name is Musky on Musky & Stubby swag! https://mynameismusky....
07/04/2025

Don't sneeze or you might miss it: a big holiday sale at My Name is Musky on Musky & Stubby swag!
https://mynameismusky.com/collections/frontpage
Use code 4THOFJULY25 for a whopping 25% off!

A small white ferret is abandoned by its owner and left by the side of the road. Things start to look up, though, when a nice lady named Stephanie shows up and saves the day. It's off to the cozy, warm animal shelter for the little ferret- but will anyone want to adopt this different kind of furry a...

Canadian ferret ladies celebrated their own personal Canada Day a day late with a special Dental Spa Day. Quite a few ba...
07/03/2025

Canadian ferret ladies celebrated their own personal Canada Day a day late with a special Dental Spa Day. Quite a few bad teeth were extracted and a few stitches were taken to try to correct Gingko's fistula (opening between re**um and va**na.)
VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU to Dr. Chelsea Marko and the Sandbank Veterinary Hospital (sandbankvet.com) in Cheshire for their generous aid! They performed ALL seven cleanings for less than the quote for ONE ferret dental from another area vet. We deeply appreciate their kind donation of services to help all these girls.
As you can see, it was a long, tiring day for the Canucks! They were very happy to come back to the shelter and cozy sleep spots.
We've now done as much as we can do for them and they are ready for adoption, tho' we're warning at some point they may need supplemental mush food due to the loss of dental capacity. To adopt, please visit our website at www.ferretassn.org.

We're delighted to share the 7 Canadian ferrets that we took into the FACT shelter out of the group of 24 have dental wo...
06/24/2025

We're delighted to share the 7 Canadian ferrets that we took into the FACT shelter out of the group of 24 have dental work scheduled for July 2nd!
Sandbank Veterinary Hospital in Cheshire will take this on at a GENEROUS discount and we are deeply appreciative.
it's great to know there is a rescue/community minded vet hospital in that area willing to help out AND that treats ferrets! Special thank you to Dr. Marko!
https://sandbankvet.com/
This will be the final step in getting these girls ready for new loving homes. A few kind folks have donated toward their medical needs already, but a few more $$ sure wouldn't hurt. 😁 You can give quickly via our website or if you have a paypal account already, just send to [email protected] and we'll send out a prompt note of thanks.

At Sandbank Veterinary Hospital, we have worked to create a home-like environment for you and your pet in Cheshire, CT. Call 203 439-9133.

Two different silver ferrets found in 2 different areas of Hartford arrived in our shelter this afternoon.Yesterday: mal...
06/23/2025

Two different silver ferrets found in 2 different areas of Hartford arrived in our shelter this afternoon.
Yesterday: male found in the area of Walmart.
Today: older female found off Broad Street.
Hoping each has a loving owner looking for them and they weren't just thrown out in this terrible heat. đŸ„ș
We are NOT posting photos to assure they are reunited with their actual owner. Please contact us via PM or email at [email protected] if you beleive one may be your ferret. Identifying information and/or photos or video will be requested.

Important to remember: try to be kind to those who rescue animals. While there are fraudsters & abusers, there are also ...
06/23/2025

Important to remember: try to be kind to those who rescue animals. While there are fraudsters & abusers, there are also gentle souls who are trying their best and for whom criticism hits deeply and hard. If what they are doing doesn't meet your personal standards, offering help is the compassionate choice.

The wildlife rescue community recently experienced a devastating loss. Mikayla Raines, the executive director of Save A Fox Rescue, passed away in the manner that so many rescuers do: losing a lifelong battle with mental illness.

Her beloved husband Ethan posted a beautiful tribute on the Save A Fox page that I encourage you to watch, but I also wanted to share some words and thoughts of my own.

I did not know Mikayla well enough to call her a friend, but we were in touch with some regularity, and our work often overlapped, and we shared many close mutual friends in common. From people who knew her well, I heard only positive things. The public often got me and Mikayla mixed up, because we are both fox rescuers who have been open with the public about our struggles with autism and depression. I would always laugh and say, “No, Mikayla’s the pretty one.”

About a year ago, Mikayla was given an opportunity to permanently close a fur farm and save *five hundred* foxes. For someone who dedicated her life to ending the fur trade, this seemed like a dream come true, the pinnacle of her entire career. The fur farm agreed to sell her the cages at a low cost so they wouldn’t lose their investments, and she could have all the foxes for free.

Mikayla moved heaven and earth trying to get veterinary care and find homes for all of them. A lot of people love the idea of a pet fox, but few want an unsocialized fur farm fox that wants nothing to do with them. Zoos and sanctuaries took many of them. We were asked, but ultimately said no because of a lack of space. In the end, Mikayla still had dozens of them left and not enough space and resources to adequately house and care for all of them.

I heard the rumors and the gossip: critics saying that it’s wrong to take that many foxes— much less “buy” them— without a full plan for them. That may be true, but there isn’t a rescuer on this planet who has never made an impulsive decision in a desperate attempt to save lives. But I never doubted that she was doing her best and that her heart was in the right place. I felt for her because I understood how the situation happened.

But I failed Mikayla in my own way. When I saw the public and other rescues criticizing her, I didn’t come to her defense. I thought she was fine— she always looked so happy and put-together— and I thought that the criticism and harassment she faced were rolling off her back. Just one day before her death, I didn’t say anything when someone in the comments on this very page had mentioned “the fox rescue that buys foxes from fur farms.” While I know in my heart that it wouldn’t have made a difference, I deeply regret that I had an opportunity to defend Mikayla and I did not take it.

Mikayla’s husband Ethan is too polite, or too justifiably afraid of retaliation, to say the names of the people who harassed Mikayla to death, but I know them and have had my own dealings with them. One of the people primarily responsible for Mikayla’s death is a convicted animal abuser who was shut down after she hoarded, starved, and tortured wild animals. This person tried to distract from this by pointing fingers at rescues like Save A Fox and For Fox Sake Wildlife Rescue that maintain ethical and financial transparency and have licenses in good standing.

I have often told other wildlife rescuers that when documented animal abusers become your enemy, it’s a sign you’re doing things right. I just wish the public had understood this, and I wish I had used my own voice to speak up before it was too late.

To all who knew Mikayla, please accept our deepest, most heartfelt condolences for your unimaginable loss. We at For Fox Sake are thinking of you in this difficult time and here for you.

And to those who “knew” Mikayla only by following her rescue online, please channel your grief and anger toward helping the animals that Save A Fox still has in their care, so that Ethan can finish the work that his beautiful wife started. You can make a donation through www.saveafox.org.

And, please: while it’s valid and necessary to criticize “rescues” that are not rescues at all— the ones with major, documented cruelty and the ones that engage in true fraud— please check your sources and your facts before trying to destroy a rescuer’s life, because you could succeed.

Finally, this is a reminder to all that suicidal ideation is a medical symptom and a medical emergency. I am not at all ashamed to say that I have had to be hospitalized for my depression when it was too much to bear. It saved my life and it can save yours too. Please call 988 or 911 if you are in danger.

-Juniper Russo, CWR
Executive Director
For Fox Sake Wildlife Rescue

06/21/2025

Ferrets overheat easily. They shouldn't be in temperatures over 78 degrees and definitely not out in the sun on a warm day. A fan will not help. A fan cools by blowing sweat off the body. Since a ferret can't sweat, it won't help a ferret.

Even being in a carrier can hold in too much heat, especially the bubble carriers. Those are like a magnifying glass that intensifies the heat from the sun. When traveling with your ferret, make sure it's not sitting in the sun.

If your A/C goes out or its too hot, you can:
* Use a plastic tote, ice chest or cooler with a hole for exhaust. Fill it with ice. Put a fan on top of a second pre-drilled hole or in the tote blowing upward. This will blow cool air created by the ice out of the container.
* Fill some containers with ice, cover with a cloth and put them in the ferret's area.
* Freeze bottles of water, cover with a cloth and put them in the ferret's area.
* Put ice cubes in the water bowl.
* Mist the ferret with cool water or run cool water over them. As the water evaporates, it will cool the ferret.
* Put a larger water container with cool water that the ferret can get into to cool down.
* Offer frozen treats or toys.
* Put them in a room with cool tile or flooring so they can lie on that and cool down.
* Brush well to keep off excess fur.
* Limit exercise.
* Make sure the room is well ventilated.
* Rent a portable A/C.

06/18/2025

Video of Pepper (I think!) the Canadian ferret who was the first to figure out how to use the cat wheel!

06/18/2025
Had a moment to take pics of the Canadian ferrets that came to Connecticut. Not ready for adoption yet! All are 3 year o...
06/17/2025

Had a moment to take pics of the Canadian ferrets that came to Connecticut. Not ready for adoption yet! All are 3 year old giurls with awful teeth. We're trying to find a vet to work with us for discounted dentals.
If in this area and interested, please complete our application at www.ferretassn.org if you haven't adopted before.
If in another region, Canadians will be in northwest NJ, Maryland, Vermont, north central PA and Indiana. Please PM us and I will give you contact info; I don't want to post that publicly.

Celebrating a win for laboratory animals and proud to have had a part in adding FERRETS to this legislation.
06/16/2025

Celebrating a win for laboratory animals and proud to have had a part in adding FERRETS to this legislation.

And the equally wonderful people at VCA West Suburban Vet who did Alterpalooza! Photos courtesy Dr. Steven Zary. Thank y...
06/13/2025

And the equally wonderful people at VCA West Suburban Vet who did Alterpalooza! Photos courtesy Dr. Steven Zary. Thank you so much!

Address

14 Sherbrooke Avenue
Hartford, CT
06106

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Business

Send a message to Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc.:

Share