HI -- I think some of the furor about comments made re shelters stem from a misunderstanding. The quote below implies that Di Bachmann ran a shelter (or one could read it that way). She didn't; she was just a backyard breeder, >the shelters .... that do have this open door policy are not the ones >you need to be concerned with.. If the neighbors had not complained >this episode would not have been discovered!! This is just my 2 cents I suspect (being the sort who likes to think the best of people) that the original poster thought Di B. was running a shelter. If you read the posts with this in mind, then wanting to know more about shelter operators makes sense, and if this interpretation is correct, no criticism of the rescuers was meant. Hoping to spread balm upon the waters... Claire [Posted in FML issue 4230]