Hey and Dooks to all the raisin-breaths !! To quote Lisette: >You are so like family to me. My actual family will not call or write or >care when Baby dies. IT is just a rat like smelly thing to them. You >have softened the blow so much. Do you know what I mean??" Lisette, I for one know EXACTLY what you mean. When I was becoming devestated by losing my fur-kids the only sympathy or understanding I received (outside of a few close friends) were from FML members. Complete strangers <well, some of you are stranger then others ; ) > took the time to write my with sympathy, prayers, and condolences. My family ? Well, it was "Gee, too bad. But, it was only an animal". They could not understand that THESE ARE MY CHILDREN ! For a long time my mother has tried to convince me to give up my life in Oregon and move back to NJ. That is, after all, where my relatives are. I have tried explaining how difficult it would be with all the ferts. Her response is always to just get rid of the stinky animals. To give a better idea, this is how our last phone call went: ME "Well mom, the holidays were rather bad. I had 6 ferrets die unexpectedly." MOM "Well, that's less you have to get rid of, then you can move back out here .... ME "Sorry you feel that way mom" - <click> Yes, Lisette, I know what you mean . . . . . . Warm Fuzzies ! Kevin B and the Way Kewl Critter Crew ~Simon~Lacey~Hershey~Sprite~Cuddles~Java~Miss Priss~ ~Cinna~Racer~ Guardian Fur-Angels - ~Furrice~Lady~Zeus~Rascal~Socks~Muttley~Dookesbury~ Missing our friends - Kimo the Sumo Cat (and Honorary Fert) and fellow ferts ~Petey~, ~Nibbler~, ~Max~, ~Romeo~, ~Bandit~, and the other ~Romeo~ Saying "Hey!" to ~Pandora~, ~Noser~ and the rest of the Tennessee Brat Pack !! Please see KITY=^..^=KAT's Fur Faces, Memorial for Zeus http://www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/2396/zeus.html Prayers to the ill and those who have gone before us. Hug your fuzzies while you can, hold them in your heart when you can't. [Posted in FML issue 2923]