Hi All, I can believe what is happening in the ferret community today and you know what, it's not the ferrets that are creating the problem. I read that Pat Stauffer is in with the board members of AFA. I also read that she condemns those who do not go up to face the people that are doing wrong first before they go to others and complain. As for the committee walking around at the shows the smart thing to do is have each one of them wear some type of identification, hence there would be no trouble in finding one. If you say they do then your statement makes no sense. I was at the WarmFuzzy show in July and a lady was there who caused a ruckus about ferrets coming in with AMD. The same people who were involved with the ruckus are the ones who left them in the door in the first place. This same lady for about a year before knew of this situation and did nothing to help correct it. At the show she didn't even offer to take or help find homes for these ferrets. She did however flame Shirley hertzog for all the work she did to try and correct the situation and not let it get out of hand at the show and after. Shirley did nothing to hide the situation but did bring it out in the open and ask for help and was again ridiculed for it by the same people. This same lady, with others, had ridiculed and damaged the name of WarmFuzzy and the Hertzogs when all they wanted to do was try to make a bad situation better. Now here this lady is telling everyone that people that do this are wrong, Dah! Why don't she follow her own words? Yes, I'm talking about Pat Stauffer. A show I was at, as was WarmFuzzy, The lady in charge was going around handing out sheets of paper that told of a rescue that she told me was not WarmFuzzy but some other rescue. This rescue was supposed to have done something wrong but yet I was elsewhere in the hall and overheard this same lady tell someone that it in fact was WarnFuzzy. How can fellow ferreters do this to each other? WarnFuzzy and committee put their first show on and it was a success with only a few miner problems. The only big problem was the one that got blown out of proportion by the same people that would not help but did ridicule the Hertzogs for trying to do their best. The February show for that time of the year was excellent even though some people hurt some of their own by putting out a bad word on WarnFuzzy. How can they live with themselves? ARE YOU JEALOUS? I want everyone to know that this is my birds - view and mine alone of what the ferret community is starting to look like. It isn't AFA as such NO it's the few bad eggs we are supposed to be afraid of that try to run it (badly) themselves instead of using all of a potentially good association. Why don't you have something in your bylaws that let all the members be eligible to nominate and vote for whom they want on the board and if you do then let them utilize their rights? We don't need a political CLICK. in the ferret community. I only want to offend those in the wrong. To all others I apologize. I would like to see the ferret community grow for the better. No one in the ferret community knows it all so let's put our resources together and be one big happy family. It's for the fuzzies and us. As always Happy Flat Ferreting Ed Sr., Potto, Samantha, and Fuzzy SEE YOU AT THE SHOWS Sorry for the delay. just got back from the Florida show which was another great show and found out my letter got erased from the FML and just got to redoing it now. [Posted in FML issue 3022]