It with heavy heart that I write and tell you that I spoke to Teresa Glasgow last night... She has told me that she knows of no ferret shelter in TN. They have over the years all shut their doors. The Glasgows themselves... for multible personal reasons have in essence shut their doors. They are open as an information base, they are open in matching rescues to wanting owners (then the transition to shelter is avoided for the ferret). They still, of course have all the "unadoptables" and are sheltering them. They are continuing with their care, with their adrenal, insolima, etc and sugeries. They also have a cage with number of incorrigible biters that have never been totally rehabed. So Will continues with two jobs, and Teresa continues with 3 jobs to pay for all this. One main reason they stopped accepting rescues is that in order to support the shelter,,,they had to work so much, and that just was not fair to the ferrets nor condusive to their well being. It is tragic to me that for many shelters there is NO help, no volunteers. There is lack of money, resources for the ferret feed, medical care, etc.. Just the simple things like needing newspapers is a huge problem. I see two sweet loving parents of furkids... unable to do what they do best, and love to do, basically do to lack of support on all levels. I realize this is the case for many shelters, and why many close. I'm quite devasted over this. This is a huge loss to me. On another note.... the fact that TN now has such a huge breeder here, and in this past year or so has large petstore now selling dozens of kits at a pop scares the hell out of me. where will they all go... with so much misinformation out there. Wolfy Please visit: http://www.geocities.com/wolfysluv/ for information on ferret deafness: http://www.geocities.com/wolfysluv [Posted in FML issue 3236]