Thankyou to everyone that replied to my plea about Garcia. I actually got a call from a woman that lives only about 3 hours away that is meeting with me about adopting Garcia. She has 10 ferrets that she has either rescued from nasty petstores or that were unwanted. She has a huge play room made just for ferrets and has expierence with dealing with aggressive ferrets. Garcia should be very happy there being since he doesn't have to be in a cage ever. One of these days when I get my own home I will make a supreme ferret room. I tried before in my last apartment but even though the vinyl and rugs protected the carpet underneath, I had to use the bedroom for so many other things that I didn't have room for throughout the rest of the apartment so the ferrets were getting into everything. Now we have moved into a bigger house, but we are still renting. I'd feel better with remodeling into a ferret room if I owned the house and could make it very intact and devoted to only ferrets and their jungle gyms. So I think that this woman can offer him more space, freedom, and the flexability to make poo mistakes (so often are they) without causing her stress and bad relations between the two of them. At least this lady knows what she is getting into with him. We are still angry that the shelter did not warn us of these problems that must have been so evident. A week later after adopting I emailed the owners of the shelter, asked them if they had had such problems with Garcia and they agreed there had been such problems. I thought I could break it, but I didn't have the patience or the skill to. Now the shelter has shut down anyway probably because they didn't have the heart for it anymore. I want to just give a big HURRAY to all the ferret rescues of the world for the patience, the heart, and the drive you have to maintain a happy and safe shelter. The money and the time you spend on your rescuees and the fact that you are very particular about who you readopt your ferrets out to is deserves a big furry hug and pat on the back. I am disappointed with this shelter because I deserved the whole facts about Garcia's habits and aggression maybe then I would have realized that he wasn't the ferret for me and not gone through all this pain and caused him to have such an unstable change himself. Well, thank you for reading my rant, and cry. I know I'm going to break down this Saturday when I release him. He isn't unwanted, he is very loved by both my husband and I. He is so sweet, handsome and full of life. But after strugglin with this for quite sometime this is the road we keep coming back to. Please pray for Garcia in his new home for us. Julia href='http://go.msn.com/bql/hmtag_itl_EN.asp'>http://explorer.msn.com</a> <br></ html> [Posted in FML issue 3561]