I'm brand new to the group and have never asked for help like this before,so please forgive any mistakes. My name is Gene and I have a wife and two children. I am on full disability w/ a broken back that has not been fixed yet and my 14 yr old son has a serious heart condition . We all moved into a new place on dec.22 2003 and we are physically and mentally exhausted . Here it is the 15 of Jan. and we are facing eviction because our wonderful ferrets are a violation of our lease. We are at our wits end and don't know what to do. Faith Hood had asked me some time ago if I would be able to take some of her older and sick ferrets we did and they are part of our family and I am not going to give them back to a shelter . One of the ferrets we adopted about a year ago was an awful biter and not very social but I was patient and spent so much time with her, now fluff kisses my face,snuggles and eats out of my hand I'm not giving them up!! Because I'm disabled I have a low monthly fixed income from Soc.Sec. of under $600. dollars so I qualified for housing asst. but now because we brought our ferret family with us We are facing immediate eviction . My family cannot move again by ourselves its too much on us , but we all agreed we'd rather be on the streets than to send our 7 ferrets to their death alone with no family!! My Phone number is (540) 341-7575 and again my name is GENE , thank you in advance!!! [Posted in FML issue 4394]