Just a comment on how this person, whoever she is, ended her letter on
misinformation regarding the ability of ferrets to cause allergy issues.
Anyway, that ending just struck me as unnecessary.  Apparently you have a
lot of experience with pretty much everyone who has ever had to give away
a ferret.  And, apparently, all these reasons for giving ferrets away are
not reasons at all but excuses from people who don't want to shoulder the
responsibility any more.  How do you know, out of curiousity, what is
going on with everyone who has been in that situation?  If you claim to
be a ferret lover, which you didn't, I know, but it was certainly implied
from the whole post's contents, how can you just insist, blindly, that
whoever adopts a ferret should just _keep_ that ferret regardless for the
ferret's whole and entire life.  Why is that situation necessarily the
best of all possible situations?  Things happen, usually in a surprising
manner, at least for most of us whose respective attempts at divining the
future have failed.
 
Anyway, I would hope that the rest of the Ferret Mailing List would be a
little more understanding and forgiving.  Yes there are people out there
who got into the ferret business without really understanding what it
meant to have a ferret, so of course these would qualify as "so-called"
ferret lovers.  But, again, is it best to insist the respective ferret
stay in this situation?  And those examples shouldn't color anyone
against the individuals who, through circumstance, can no longer provide
the best home for their ferret but believe their ferret deserves the
best and thus want to find them a better home with someone else.
 
I have personally been on both ends of this particular stick, and it is
not pleasant, giving away ferrets; on the other hand, if someone else
had not given away their ferret about, say, 6 years ago, I would not have
a 7 1/2 year old medical survivor known as Linus the Wonder Ferret.
 
Minta & Linus</fontfamily>
[Posted in FML issue 3999]