>So, that is most likely why the ferret was in the locker. As for >telling the commander about it, how the !!!**** would you like it if >someone called your boss and told them something like that about your >personal business?" Well, if I was abusing an animal and keeping it in an inappropriate habitat, and I lived under the command of my boss, or anyone else for that matter, I would hope someone would report me to the authorities or whomever could do anything about it. In the military when you're living in a barracks, the military is also your landlord, not your boss, and if I am living in an apartment, someone can certainly tell my landlord that I am violating the lease. It's not a matter of personal business at the point where an animal is abused or neglected in any way-any more than it should have been in the good old days (and unfortunately, this still happens sometimes) of police saying that they couldn't do anything about the husband beating his wife b/c it was "personal business". I don't care who you have to tell to get someone to stop mistreating an animal or to prevent it from happening again. -April "There's nary an animal alive that can outrun a greased Scotsman." -Groundskeeper Willy, "The Simpsons" [Posted in FML issue 3975]