Grandma Addie's Carnivore Kitchen

10/28/2023

We wanted to take a moment to provide you with an important update regarding Grandma Addie's Carnivore Kitchen. Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control, we will be closing our business. We wanted to express our sincerest gratitude for your support throughout the years. It has truly been an honor and a privilege to serve you. We will always cherish the memories and relationships we have built along the way. Thank you once again for allowing us to be a part of your raw feeding journey.

09/30/2023

Happy Gotcha Day Willow! ❤️
6 years ago today I drove to another state to pick up 2 byb babies known to be biters. I had no idea what to expect, but I knew those two girls were going to change our lives. And boy did they! They taught us how to manage separate groups, about how light exposure affects intact jills, what coming in to season looks like, what a jill jab is like, what spay surgery recovery looks like and how bittersweet it is to build trust with ferrets that are nearly feral. Willow had completely given up on humans but Hope desperately wanted to trust again. It took years to bring Willow around to not latching on to any flesh she could get her teeth into. Today, Willow still doesn’t have much use for humans but she does enjoy her good morning scritchins and a few minutes of play time before she’s done with people again. She’s learned to trust more as she’s gotten older and lost her hearing and her sight. When I brought them home, I promised them that this was their forever home and I’m so grateful that it was. Willow has widespread lymphoma now and her journey with us is coming to an end. Hope and Addie and Simon and Zoe are all calling her Home and she spends a lot of time dead sleeping, visiting them at The Bridge and preparing her nest with all the stash toys and food she can find.
Here’s some pictures of our journey with Hope and Willow, from when I picked them up to now❤️

09/29/2023

Let’s help the minkies! ❤️❤️

🔥Project on PAUSE please bear with us 🔥
*Edit- we are still taking donations;
• Three mink have made it to anonymous definite forever safety, and we are currently transferring donations to assist them.
• We will be transferring some donations to another party who wishes to remain anonymous but has gone out of pocket to assist the minkies.
• We also may have a veterinary related bill upcoming for one mink.
PENNSYLVANIA RELEASED MINK FUNDRAISER

Ok friends, we need your help! We are working to save a number of the released fur farm mink in Pennsylvania, and we have the mink farmers blessing to do so! To repeat, we have permission from the farmer to move a small number of these mink into the rescue network!

In order to remain an option for rescuing these little guys, we need funds for food, transport, and vet care! This need is urgent!

Please consider making a donation- no matter how small it is I PROMISE YOU it matters and it helps!

You can donate here, through Rocky Mountain Mink Refuge, which is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, and your donations are tax deductible. *Please note that donating to us through Facebook/PayPal Giving Fund now takes up to 45 days for donations to process/clear, meaning those funds will not be available to help for quite some time. In this urgent situation we are recommending donations be sent via methods that will allow us to utilize the funds for the minkies immediately:

• Venmo:

• PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/rescuemink

• Zelle: 385-208-6934

• CashApp: $minkrescue

Facebook Fundraiser:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=302631645732498&id=100079569940069&mibextid=Nif5oz

09/23/2023

Throwback to baby Willow the day she came home to us ❤️❤️

09/21/2023

Ummm Annie? Whatcha doin with your foot? 😂😂🤪

09/20/2023

Natalie is the daughter of one of my favorite local customers. She is the sweetest little girl! She sends us handmade cards and draws pictures for us that are hanging in our shipping area. Every order that’s shipped out of here is packed beneath Natalie’s beautiful artwork. If you want to support an amazing girl, there’s some neat stuff. There’s even a mini food processor that would turn our grinds into excellent Soupies!

https://www.shopfund.com/Shop?TabId=177&sid=1924414&t=FB&language=en-US&fbclid=IwAR0CEil-lv5Qr9truDF0zYKXPaVtSGFWGhYO1-rlT7-e_qD4bDxKvFZbpwU_aem_AcvYk06MhwnvJ1MaapuIENzU8qCMZi1SOWMwdZsDoI_XdmV0ti6jsfgF_Rxc-EXT-dQ&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Can we count on you to help Natalie raise money for the fundraiser?

09/16/2023

‼️URGENT‼️URGENT‼️URGENT‼️
Please go to Saveafox Corporation ASAP for more details and donate immediately!! Every donation matters, your $1 donation MATTERS!! This is an incredibly RARE opportunity to close a fur farm AND save the foxes/stop them from being pelted!! Follow the link to SAF for more details!!
https://fb.watch/n5MApWYhkp/?mibextid=Nif5oz

09/16/2023

Sounds like a conversation that would happen here 😂

09/13/2023

What a handsome boy 😍

09/13/2023

Update!
Finn did super great for the groomer! Sad ears didn’t work on her like they do mommy so she got him finished up really fast! Look how sad 🥺😂

09/13/2023

‼️Alert‼️
Finnigan has gone to a real groomer for the first time ever! Update and pics to follow 😂😱

09/11/2023

I don’t post personal things unless it concerns our fur babies so this post will be a little different. It’s long but it’s important. We have the best customers in the world and I want to make sure you all know how much we appreciate you.

Most of you know that the Grandma Addie’s team consists of me (Dawn) and Brian, but some of you don’t. We are just two people with a passion for ferrets and healthy nutrition for pets. All of the processing, portioning, labeling, packing and shipping is done by the two of us. When items are out of stock, there’s always a reason, and usually it’s because we either can’t get the ingredients or the containers. Sometimes though, like recently, it’s a combination of the above issues and the fact that we are just two people.

In the past 6 months, I’ve had two hip repair surgeries. Each time, I was totally out of commission for a month and Brian was on his own. On top of handling all of the processing and shipping, he handled every day to day chore that running a small farm and family entails. During this time, Brian has also been waiting patiently for me to heal so that he can have a total hip replacement. (The surgeon literally said his hip was trashed lol) Sometimes, he just needs a break or time to work on other things that need attention around the property.

So, Grandma Addie’s will be closed for two weeks beginning September 25th. We plan to back on October 9th. We will ship on September 25th but after that we are closed for both shipping and pick up orders. You can still place orders but we will not be doing any processing until after we come back in October so we won’t be adding any inventory during that time.

This break will allow us time for me to finish healing from my surgery last month and time to catch up on projects that need attention before Brian’s surgery this month. Hopefully we can even take a few days off and just relax lol

I really can’t tell you what an honor and a privilege it is to not only provide healthy, nutritious food for your ferrets but to also spoil them with little toys and boxes and paper to play in. I appreciate you guys sticking with us through all the challenges over the years and I wanted to give a little explanation about what’s been happening in our lives so you understand the inventory issues we’ve had.

Here’s an old pic of Grandma Addie herself from 3 years ago. ❤️❤️