Hi ........ been quite some time since i've posted to the list ........ get really tired of people being rude because their opinion clashes with someone elses. Someone please help me ......... how exactly do you find out a ferret is right for you? I did my research on ferrets before i went and got my first ferret ........ and hey it worked out for me ........ and i cannot imagine living without my fuzzy babies. So what about those that do their research and think hey, i think a ferret is right for me and it turns out ............. for whatever reason, that they are not a ferret person ........ so what are they to do? Are they supposed to keep the ferret and have a very unhappy ferret or do they try and find a good home for the baby or take them to an already over run shelter or a local humane society or spca .......... or worse abandon it, like my piggy boy was abandoned at a local motel and i had to go find him. Sometimes even with research, you won't know if something is right unless you actually go and do it. My opinion is to try and find a good loving home for their baby (and need to be commended for being smart enough and caring enough to know that they need to find their ferret a new loving home) ........ and those that try to find loving homes should be commended for caring enough to do so. With all the negative posts to the list about people trying to have their ferrets adopted by loving caring folks ........ how many out there are not going to want post to the list to try and have their ferrets adopted ........ for fear of being flamed for trying to do the right thing. So what happens with these ferrets? Do they wind up in shelters? Do they wind up being caged 24/7 and emotionally neglected? You don't know exactly what's going on unless you are in the persons shoes ....... On a side note ........ I thought that nettiquette was that you do not post private emails? Pooh [Moderator's note: Private e-mails aren't posted without permission, at least if I catch them, and I usually do. (If I don't recognize a quote I'll search past FMLs for it.) BIG] [Posted in FML issue 3871]