I am involved with a small shelter and I have never been flamed before but the post from Dory concerning our "non-helping" the one she helps at hurt. She wrote last week to us. I had no idea who she was. I have been gathering facts and figures from our president and will present it to her. We do help the other shelter some but have not been asked to provide her with volunteers, etc. We will be having a picnic/fun fair soon and will ask attendees to help out. Our shelter and rescue group takes in unwanted ferrets, places ads for losts and founds, provides assistance when needed for surgery, even for ferrets of non-members, surgery for the new ones if needed, holds low-cost vaccination clinics for the community, publishes a newsletter, gets checkups and vaccinations for the intakes so they are up to date before adopting out. We have placed 27 ferrets in the last year (since Jan. 1) If we only have a few listed on the web site it is because that's all we have ready for adoption or that we haven't got to updating it. We are participating in a local animal fair for all kinds of animals. Food, litter, wear and tear on the cars are not always billed to the club. (rarely.) So I hope that settles some questions and we can stop the name calling. [CG] [Posted in FML issue 4310]