Please write to Georgia, Ela or me if you have questions about Support Our Shelters. Asking the shelters about us makes sense, but talking about us without talking TO us does not. I wish I didn't feel like I need to write about S.O.S. two days in a row, but I do. Lisette has let Georgia know that she is thoroughly offended by Georgia's post last night. She believes that Georgia's calling the amount of money S.O.S. has "peanuts" and a "poor little pot" means that Georgia thinks that a $50 donation is peanuts. (I don't know where the amount came from; it wasn't in the post.) I think Georgia will be writing to clarify her meaning, but I honestly can't see how saying we don't have much money means we scorn a $50 donation. Heck, we don't scorn a $2 donation like the ones we receive from Kouri's fan club. Every donation is gratefully received. If there is bad feeling about money here, it is that we never have enough to help half the shelters we would like to help. We can't even pay for one surgery without doing some fundraising. What we have we give away. I think it's obvious Georgia is simply saying we don't receive enough money to make all the work we do a worthwhile way to scam people. Crime is supposed to pay, after all. Since we do give money to the shelters (someone would surely have noticed by now if we didn't, don't you think?) there isn't enough left over to go to Monte Carlo. We raised a lot of money one time for the NJ Xmas Rescue, but it all went to pay off some very large vet bills. Taking in a lot of money didn't mean we HAD a lot of money for longer than a couple of weeks. Lisette also said that two of the people who wanted information about S.O.S. were so offended by the post that they won't be donating to the cause of the Utah ferrets or ever donate to S.O.S. I can see not giving to an organization that a person doesn't like.... but not giving to the ferrets at all some other way just because that organization will also be giving to them??? No comment. As for Georgia not keeping an eye on the checking account, she's just a trusting kind of person, I guess. I keep the account, and she and Ela can access it any time they want. They just trust me. I tell them what we get, and what we send out, and how much we have left, and they believe me. I'd be more than happy to give BIG our bank and PIN number if it would make people feel better. I think the reason all this hits our feelings a bit hard is not only that we don't want people to think we would misuse their donations. It's also that we do a lot of work that brings in no money, and we thought that said a lot about our intentions. Again, please talk to us directly if you have questions. Judith <[log in to unmask]> Georgia <[log in to unmask]> Ela <[log in to unmask]> [Posted in FML issue 3545]