[log in to unmask] wrote: >Before I found the FML-I felt so isolated. Who could understand that it >was important to save a ferrets life? To treat"it" as a him or her. I know we don't want to get into animal rights debates here, etc., but I just had to comment on this one aspect of your post. It absolutely *infuriates* me when a person refers to one of my animals as "it." I will never go back to a vet who does this, for example, and I always make a point of correcting everyone who says that to me -- "it" has a name, and a sex! "It" is *not* just an "it," he or she is a member of my family. To me (though I know some may disagree), this is a clear sign of whether or not I want a person caring for my animals ever, in any capacity. So to make this appropriately on topic, I guess it's one big way I judge a vet when we meet for the first time... -Natasha [Posted in FML issue 3732]