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>Subject: overcrowded shelters
>I think it is working here in our area, considering we are now serving
>Virginia and Maryland because we've lost all the other ferret rescues
>within a one to two hour's drive around here.
 
You must drive REAL slow.  There could be as many as dozen shelters of
various sizes within an hour or two of where you are.  Leesburg VA,
Baltimore MD and even parts of Pennsylvania like Gettysburg are within that
range depending upon exactly where you mean as 'here'.  And well, we are
too.  We don't bring ferrets from Fairfax to Frederick county very often
because since we've been out there we just don't get many requests for
ferrets.  Maybe one a year.  The poor things might end up sitting there for
the rest of their lives.  Some within that range that get listed as Ark
Angels (past or present) or on the AFA list never seemed to ever take in
ferrets so Ican't be more specific on numbers.  Quite a few of us picked
up where you left off.  Some even 'unofficially'.
 
Just because many of us choose not to play along with the 'rules' of
certain 'lists' doesn't mean we aren't still shelters.  Can only be one
thing?  Ferret contact, whatever that is?  Then dropped?  So what...
 
-bill
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bill and diane killian
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[Posted in FML issue 2784]