Concerning Illinois baby ferrets facing death: Apparently someone on the FML or another ferret list is doing a long drive during a week day to rescue the ferrets this Thursday that we have been told are 8 weeks old from the H.S. They were going to be killed tomorrow otherwise, I understand. Then there is going to be another hour or 2 drive to the shelter. I cannot begin to guess where they will go unless a bunch of ferrets were adopted at GCFA in the last few days. I just cleaned out space so that they could actually sell supplies that they have, so that the shelter can make a little money. I am afraid to ask if the wall shelving I just cleaned and set supplies out on can still be reached or seen. It is probably buried behind cages again. My thanks to all of you for trying to keep this shelter afloat. Norm is so calm. I could so NOT run a shelter. How do you keep your cool when you have to be exhausted and buried in worry, watching these thrown out half dead filthy gasping little ones with ribs sticking out coming in over and over again? All of you who run shelters are amazing to me. It is a thankless struggle and economic stress, and physically depleting to lift the hundreds of pounds of litter, cleaning cages, emptying garbage filled with another 50 pounds of used litter. The phone ringing almost constantly. Always having to be pleaseant to these meat heads? No one in their right mind would ask me to answer that phone. I begged Norm not to answer it at all. He calmly, softly. said "I cannot do that." That man makes me cry. God Bless you guys. Lisette [Posted in FML issue 3840]