>The point I am trying to make is that they have not been mishandled and >I am saddened to think that you would believe a shelter to mishandle ANY >animal. hmmm...the point i made was this: "maybe they were handled wrong"!!!! it is a shelter, right? i dont know where the ferrets came from....im assuming that they were surrendered or rescued or found...hence they are at the "SHELTER"...who knows why they were gotten rid of...and better yet "WHO KNOWS" how they were treated by previous owners!!! how could you get anything else but that out of my statement? i never put the shelter down...i asked a question and gave advice on how to break a biter...as far as where i got the biting advice...(vets, vet school, shelters and my own expierance)... and im glad that you called the klein branch...and where i got my information is we volunteer...i never said that 63,000. ferrets were put to sleep..if you reread my email it states (in the 2nd second sentence before the number) that "as a mom of animals and kids"!!!! i was talking about animals!!! "ALL" animals... in your statement to me "hitting ferrets"...I NEVER SAID THAT YOU OR ANYONE AT YOUR SHELTER" hit, slapped, or abused the ferrets in anyway...again all i did was give the shelter advice on how to train a ferret who bites...as you stated in your letter tome "YOU ARE A NEW" shelter...you know i get advice everyday..i welcome it...i always listen to it..i may not agree with it...and usualy i try it out (as long as its not abusive)...if it works then i will reccomend it...the point is "YOU" never stop learning...never!!! it may be good and it may be bad...and sometimes one way doesnt always work...so youtry another...based on the information on the web site i "ASKED SOME QUESTIONS"..i "never" made a nasty comment to the shelter or about the shelter...i asked questions and i gave some good sound advice...you can take it or you can choose to ignore it...as a memeber of the fml im sure that you ahve read those posts by people who flick, slap, tap or whatever you want to call it...there ferrets...thats what i was referreing too...i did not refer to your shelter as doing that...what i said was that there was a club here (in tucson) that endorses flicking, and thats why i dont belong to "any" club!!!! now that i have cleared this up...i mean really it was self explanatory in the fml post...im assuming i will not be getting any more emails from you debating this issue...i dont like it when people play with the words that are right there in front of them...i never accused the shelter of anything...or you...i just asked some questions and gave advice..you know people who tend to be in similar situations or have been there done that will give adivice to "TRY TO HELP YOU OUT"...you know just in case you didnt know it or maybe had not ever heard of a different not evasive method!!! sincerly, trudie [Posted in FML issue 3597]