[log in to unmask] wrote: >I delete my E-mails after I read them now to stop my computer from >freezing up on me. But someone in Chicago had 2 ferrets that were to be >given up because of children's allergies and a surgery for Mom coming >up.Yes? Please pass this on. I am taking the 2 ferrets, Rosie and Jabba. I will be picking them up next weekend. That will bring our total up to 14 but I am excited to meet them and happy to have them :) ===== In the best of times, I hold in my mind the need to care for things beyond the self: poetry, humanity, grace. In other times, when it seems difficult merely to survive and be happy about it, the condition of my thought tastes as simple as this: let me be a good animal today. -Barbara Kingsolver, "High Tide in Tuscon" ~*~*~ http://foxfoot.tripod.com/ [Posted in FML issue 3911]