After we posted we had gone to the shelter and adopted some ferrets and the we were very impress with the place and the way it is being run we have had some people write us telling of how the owner of the shelter abuses her aniamls and will not feed or care for them. What we seen at the shelter was nothing at all like you are saying. What we saw was a very loving woman that devote her life to the care and welfare of the animals in her care. I was asked to research what happen 2 years ago with this shelter and every news station, and new paper that covered this story said that Animal Control was shocked at how well cared for the animals were. I asked the people that wrote me to send me the prove of what they said about the abuse and all that took place no one ever wrote me back after that. I don't know what all happen two years back I just know what Rose and I saw at the shelter and the ferrets we adopted from them are in no way abused my boy is a moose on legs and he is not fat he is all muscle at 3.5 pounds. I still will say that the shelter where we adopted him from was the nicest shelter we have ever been in and they have the best looking animals we have ever seen and that includes the little girl in need of surgery other then she is hairless she runs and plays harder then most of the other ferrets there. At one of our visits to the shelter there was a vet there and he to went on and on of how wonderful the shelter was and if we were thinking of adopting that he himself would never adopt from anyone else but this shelter. We didn't and don't want to upset any of the people on this list but we are just telling everyone what we experience when we adopted or new furries. My boy had so cagemates that came home with him all being in outstanding health, temperament and condition. Mike/Rose [Posted in FML issue 4244]