I am so glad that you let the animal control officers know, Mary!  These
things influence court rulings and further actions.  I also had two places
that she advertised in communicate with those officials shortly after
the rescue when she was trying that again (a few months afterward), and I
believe that Troy Lynn asked a 4th one ("Ferrets" magazine, if memory
serves) to do so.  Your's will show that the behavior is longer term and
that should have a LOT of weight in the case against her.  I agree with
you, if anyone sees her place advertised anywhere then they need to let
the animal control officers brings the case know and warn the
publication/list about her.  I included your addy in the quote because I
don't have the contact info handy in case anyone else has info to help
stop animal abuse and hoarding, but you will have it.
 
Mary <[log in to unmask]> at wrote:
>Jennifer Morrison, the collector that created the Utah Rescue problem, is
>still trying to act like a shelter (for those that haven't already heard).
>She has posted her shelter info to a variety of places (even emailed to
>get on the AFA Shelter List - not going to happen) so we contacted the
>Animal Control officers who dealt with her case to let them know that she
 
Oh, if anyone wants to learn about hoarding there are some addies in one
section of links in a list of resources for ferret health and well-being:
 
Political-health things:
http://www.fda.gov/cvm/index/ade/pharmacobrochure.pdf (federal
reporting of adverse veterinary drug reactions)
http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/legislat/awa.htm (animal welfare act) and
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ac/publications.html (fed. regulations and more)
http://www.tufts.edu/vet/cfa/hoarding.html, and
http://www.tufts.edu/vet/cfa/MunicipaLawyer.pdf and
http://www.legis.state.il.us/publicacts/pubact92/acts/92-0454.html and
http://www.mhsource.com/pt/p000425.html (hoarding and how it hurts animals)
 
A request: I made this request last year when we knew that the money was
going to get very tight for us (and it's tighter now).  The request is
not for us but for a 401(c) , i.e.tax deductible charity.  The Morris
Animal Foundation is something we love so dearly that its even in our
wills.  This is the foundation that first began as something like
"Buddy's Friends" over 50 years ago and which uses 100% of the
contributions received toward veterinary research to improve health care
for the critters we love.  The reason contributions are used in full for
this purpose is because the founder (Dr. Morris, after whom it was renamed
when he passed away) was the developer of the first kidney-health food
which he originally developed and his wife made as a kindness to help a
blind friend's seeing eye dog.  When his formula was purchased by a food
company those moneys and a long term obligation by the purchaser supplied
the administrative funds for the foundation.
 
Anyway, we have to pinch pennies, so I'd really appreciate it if this year
those of you who can look into this fine foundation and consider giving to
their "Ferret Fund".  I know, they technically don't have something called
specifically that but they do direct monies to requested uses if the
contribution is over something like $25 or $50 dollars.  Normally, we
have given in the four figures most years to that cause and it has helped
both Domestic Ferret and Black Footed Ferret health care improvements
that have saved ferret lives.  We normally also give toward ferret health
investigations to the ADV research at the University of Georgia, the
Animal Medical Center in NYC, the Div. of Comparative Medicine at MIT,
and the ADV Fund at the AFA, the Fund for developing a tissue bank of
ferret disease samples at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, and
sometimes to others.  Right now we can't do so.  I would appreciate it if
you would.  Since the Morris Animal Foundation reviews the work of others
and then gives to them I'd especially appreciate if you'd look into them
since doing so will also help others (1-800-243-2345), but if you prefer
any of the others all are very, very important.  I believe that all of
these groups and projects have websites, though I may be wrong.  The AFIP
info can be found at the website of the project director, Dr. Bruce
Williams, who helps us all so often with health info.  His website is
among the ones created by vets in the links at the geocities addy below
my signature at the bottom of this post.
 
Sukie
for health info:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Health-List
http://geocities.com/sukieslist
Having some Spring tree pollen asthma so hope I make enough sense for you
all.
[Posted in FML issue 3736]