Some past posts on Hagerstown and the Di Bachman conviction: http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0308&L=ferret-search&P=R23318 http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0309&L=ferret-search&P=R21648 http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0309&L=ferret-search&P=R26304 http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0312&L=ferret-search&P=R16618 http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0308&L=ferret-search&P=R23318 http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0307&L=ferret-search&P=R27127 http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0308&L=ferret-search&P=R675 http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0308&L=ferret-search&P=R1739 http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0308&L=ferret-search&P=R3276 http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0308&L=ferret-search&P=R5958 http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0308&L=ferret-search&P=R5053 http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0308&L=ferret-search&P=R8059 http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0308&L=ferret-search&P=R7597 http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0308&L=ferret-search&P=R8390 http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0308&L=ferret-search&P=R15848 The photos were shocking, but these posts will give a gentler view of what happened. Imagine a person who had a history of mass dumpings of ferrets, who valued ribbons enough to have them in a basket while the ferrets there were stuffed into uncleaned, rusting, tiny cages some with unknown items rotting in the bottoms of them, in a small vermin infested garage which was barely lit from one cobweb festooned bare lightbulb. Imagine little to no medical care, a number without food or water for extended times, some dead or nearly dead lying there passing in filth without comfort. Something current elsewhere: you can use a translator program to read this one, or the translated page, or both: http://www.dyrenes-beskyttelse.dk/db/dbpress.nsf/docs/ 2fc00ff8fb9190e0c1256cbb003b89b3 and http://www.dyrenes-beskyttelse.dk/db/db.nsf/docs/ bef7b26a38124ac8c1256ecb002b8976 translated summary: http://telltale.zerodollars.com/thinggaard.htm I am *hoping* to get a copy of the conviction write-up on the previous ferret case against the individual from the courts in Copenhagen on the methods and conditions which qualified it for the abuse conviction. What I have heard in rumor is enough to gray a person's hairs so hopefully it wasn't as bad as I heard. The newspaper sections which are available in English don't seem to include the related articles and I can't search in Danish but for those who can do so some related news articles are listed elsewhere as: Berlingske Tidende 29-01-2003, B.T. 28-01-2003, Politiken 28-01-03, JP KFbenhavn 28-01-03, Fyens Stiftstidende 28-01-03, MetroXpress 28-01-03, 10minutter 28-01-03, Urban 28-01-03, www.berlingske.dk 27-01-03, www.jp.dk 27-01-03, Ritzau Bureau I/S 27-01-2003. [Posted in FML issue 4703]