>"Me thinks the lady duth protest to much"
 
I don't, She has good reason.  You appear to be trying to undermine all
the other Small rescues apart from yours and your "affiliates"
 
>Now if the UK had a national rescue to which all the small rescues
>could be affiliate so that each and every affiliated rescue was given a
>surprise inspection once or twice a year, then would we not have less
>animals being abused, or would we still have cases like Hagestown and
>the last one in the UK.
>
>I think it is worth fighting for to see each and every small rescue in
>the UK registered or at least affiliated to a larger registered rescue,
>it costs the rescue nothing to register as a charity in the UK, you can
>even be better off by having your rates cut down to almost nothing so
>that more money can be spent on the animals, but you are then governed
>by rules.  Can anyone tell what they personally have against registering
>as a charity?
 
Pray, tell me where the funding for all this will come from?  who is
going to pay for all this?  who is going to do all these "surprise
inspections" and keep the register of rescues?
 
I myself just can't see it, I think you should stop being so selfish and
help support the existing small rescues, We already have the BFFW, The
British Federation of Ferret Rescues, how much more do you need?
 
[Posted in FML issue 4283]