>From: Caroline Jones aka CJ <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: How Marshall Farms ships their babies, first hand view >MF needs to make their journey more humane. You can put up the pictures, it is the language that you use with it might cause trouble. Precise accurate descriptions are not defamatory. But applying your choice of adjectives even if you think it is an opinion can be slanderous. But our "legal" opinion is that of a lay person not a judge or lawyer. But for what it's worth, we recommend not putting water bottle in cages for ferrets on the shorter flights. Perhaps even as long as NY to NV. You end up with a choice between hungry and thirsty ferrets or wet, cold, dirty, miserable, hungry and thirsty ferrets. We've tried both ways and in our case we offer food and water to the ferrets as quickly as we can get the ferrets out of "cargo" usually Delta Dash. bill and diane killian zen and the art of ferrets [Posted in FML issue 3325]