Hi, I found your email that you sent me in a long list of emails in my Old Mail. I apologized for overlooking that one! Here's the remaining answers.... I do not know what UTD, IMO, etc means. I'm sorry. Please send me an email and explain what it means so I can understand. I'd be more than happy to answer whatever you need to know. There's 65 ferrets to be exact, one died a few days later due to a very poor condition that he was in. He was given everything possible by a vet available at everyone's request, but he was very old and tired. His body was not able to take the stress. Yes, I've screened so many people. I received over 560 emails regarding adoptions and it was a staggering task, but April and others helped so much. We had to put all emails on all four walls in an empty room in state cateogries in order to figure all out. Then we went down to people themselves. It went on. It was a very hard job for all of us because we didn't expect such a huge response. I've asked for many people especially ferret experts, etc. for help in screening and much more since I do not know ferret community. April, Deb and others and I cross referenced with many people on each person and when we're happy with the information, the ferrets went to them. April personally drove and transported many of them and has seen many of their homes which she reported were wonderful. I was pleased, but most of all, relieved. I worried a lot and bit off all of my good nails that week. We all have been very blunt and honest with all the new owners that all of the ferrets has not been tested for Aleutin's Disease. We asked them to. We got some results from several ferret owners and all of them has been negative so far. We were happy. We also informed everyone that the ferrets will need to be vaccinated once they get them because we had no idea of their histories. Also, we advised them to be at the vet for at least an hour at vet's suggestion to be sure there's no reaction? Final question, how they came to be involved in everyone's else lives. That is the hard one. I gave out all informations we knew of ferrets because everyone had the right to know. Again, I personally left out informations about where I'm from, so forth in case the lab company may go after me or certain people that was involved. What happened was that someone thought I KNEW all about ferrets when I only knew someone that OWNs a ferret. It happened that someone got the wrong information and ended up rescuing all the ferrets that were destined on their way to the labs to be tested or some kind of experimental thing and brought them over to dump on me without my knowledge. It happened so fast it's a blur. Ferrets came in all kinds of cages and others with thin ropes around their neck with notes of little infom. about each. We've made up some names for others. I've checked all other options and there was none especially for a large number for ferrets. That's how I ended up researching the Internet and found all of you and people here as well. I was given a semi empty townhouse at someone's family's request to use for all ferrets while the family was willing to stay abit longer at relatives. Ferrets were given baths, ear mites treated, some teeth cleaned or brushed, clipped, the list goes on that lasted for days. It was a huge job. They all were not even once around anyone's shelter kids or someone's homes with ferrets, but in an empty yet warm borrowed home so they won't be stressed out. Things worked out better than I could dream of. I wished I knew all of the history in what happened to them. All I can say is that I'm content that they're safe, warm and has a home now. I sleep better now at nights knowing we all did everything for those babies. We definitely will keep you on the list if we need transporting driver. Thank you! Hope these answers help. Thank you. Marcy [Posted in FML issue 4062]