Lisette, I have had to think about and digest what i have read recently, and want to express my thoughts to all. What i have read regarding your posts, and what we have emailed one another about, regarding ferrets, those of our own, and or others including GCFA, ferrets, has always been a positive issue, with us. IF, you hadn't been posting to THE FML, regarding GCFA, i probably WOULDN'T ever have even known it existed. That could equal to 100 or so give or take a few, ferrets, that would have lived their lives on the outskirts of my very own little world, with wants and needs, for me never to be able to fullfill. AS it WAS, your posts/and pleading for help, initiated me, to arrange a work day, that i may have the afternoon off, with no work obligations, to make that trip south, to a city, that i hold in fear? I couldn't have done it alone, and my loving husband took on the responsibility to make sure we arrived there safely, even after getting turned around and lost (goodness knows where) for nearly 3 hours in Chicago, i think we were east, when we should have been west, we were on the right road, just ...discombobulated? (sic) , directions ... is all i can say, i know i still will not attempt that trip alone...tooooo far, and tooo scarey. My husbands car broke down 3 days later...goodness, knows there must have been angels abound that day, for we took home with us Bubba and Buddy, that evening, thanks to Norm...The boys are doing very well, Bubba was on a seek and destroy mission for about a week, but after some motherly counseling...we finally worked it all out. Bubba and Buddy are loved, equally, as well as the one who has been with us the longest...there ARE NO FAVORITES IN THIS HOUSE, but for my FAVORITE, BUBBA, my FAVORITE BUDDY, or my favorite by any other name. THEY all know they are my favorite :-) just as long as i don't confuse the names :-) Myself, i think of ALL those prescious ferrets at GCFA, shelter now... a few in particular, because ... well, they just stood out to me, but they are all thought of sincerely. Given the finances, i WOULD HAVE ADOPTED them ALL, and spoiled everyone of them rotten, for all that they have had to endure by their surrendering other human animal. I may have confused some of the names, as i was reading them from the tags on cages, not by confusing emails between Lisette and MYSELF. We were so lost and so late getting there, that we had little time before we really had to be back on the road. My husband was also suffering with a sinus infection, requiring antibiotics, which he forwent that day to get to the doctor to recieve them, to drive us to CHICAGO, GCFA. He was in a lot of PAIN, but he knew how important this trip was to me. I am grateful for the husband that i have, and for the last 14 years we have had together... Lisette, you HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE in Bubba and Buddys life and for that they wish to SAY "Thank YOU, Auntie Lisette" and for the other 20 or so ferrets, would they have been able to find loving homes if not for your posts? Many regards Bubba & Buddy, 2 former shelter ferrets ...and their mommy Donna and daddy Dan Christen :-) [Posted in FML issue 3922]