Kim, NONE of the comments which you attribute to me in issue #3340 which arrived 2/26/01 were made by me. I know how you got confused, though. You had your original post in which you spoke of the botched spay. That night I did one thing: I contacted someone at the breeder with a "heads-up" in case that could help you. The next day or shortly after there was post from a third party (Not naming names because this is about only a disagreement and fights are NOT wanted.) and I failed on reading that to notice that the third person writing has a shelter. I then wrote a post telling a bit about how people who have shelters do at times encounter surprises and that none of us can know the other demands in anyone else's life. That third person then replied to me on the FML. You are quoting from that third person's post, NOT from mine. As I recall, they appeared sequentially on the same day due to my also copying that individual directly, just I will copy you directly with this this as well as posting it. Please, check the back posts to confirm this. Life is complicated enough without taking the rap for what some else said! :-) If you mentioned it to anyone off-list I would appreciate if you would clarify this for them so that I am not saddled with someone else's words. Had that happen many years ago here and it blew up into a fight over things I never said. [Posted in FML issue 3341]