>So, that is most likely why the ferret was in the locker.  As for
>telling the commander about it, how the !!!**** would you like it if
>someone called your boss and told them something like that about your
>personal business?"
 
Well, if I was abusing an animal and keeping it in an inappropriate
habitat, and I lived under the command of my boss, or anyone else for
that matter, I would hope someone would report me to the authorities or
whomever could do anything about it.  In the military when you're living
in a barracks, the military is also your landlord, not your boss, and if
I am living in an apartment, someone can certainly tell my landlord that
I am violating the lease.
 
It's not a matter of personal business at the point where an animal is
abused or neglected in any way-any more than it should have been in the
good old days (and unfortunately, this still happens sometimes) of police
saying that they couldn't do anything about the husband beating his wife
b/c it was "personal business".  I don't care who you have to tell to get
someone to stop mistreating an animal or to prevent it from happening
again.
 
-April
 
"There's nary an animal alive that can outrun a greased Scotsman."
-Groundskeeper Willy, "The Simpsons"
[Posted in FML issue 3975]