I'm a little behind in my FMLs but when I saw the posts about Tiny Prints I have to say something, I thought I was the only one with concerns. I've seen posts being sent out from them all over boards I read. I was getting a little sick too of reading about the plees for money. I send donations to shelters when I can and get the updates and newsletters - who have dozens, in some case hundreds!, of ferrets in their shelters. So when I read Margerites posts I started to go to her website thinking I might send her a donation too. But I saw she never has many ferrets in the shelter! And she's asking for all this money to help this ferret and that ferret. Now, maybe that is to be expected from a new shelter. But THEN I went to a ferret show and there was this 'tiny little shelter' Tiny Prints. If you never went to a show, you may not know, there are shelters there and breeders and people selling things. Shelters sell hand maid stuff and little toys and things to raise money for their shelter. Just little tables with cute stuff and you just want to buy everything because you know the money helps ferrets. But then I saw this huge table, it was four times the size of any other shelter table at the show, and there was the name, Tiny Prints. It was not what I expected. This set up could rival the Ferret Store and half the products must have come from there, this wasn't home maid stuff, this was a retail store this 'shelter' was running. If she was so broke she can't afford ferret medical care then how does she buy all this stuff to sell? Her table was busy all day long selling stuff but she can't afford 7 ferrets in her shelter? I don't understand, unless she is making money for herself on this business. Then there's poor shelters there with no people buying from them the hand maid stuff but Tiny Prints is raking in the money. Then there's other stuff on her website that bugged me. Like I said I went to her website when I got her posts. And I saw her ferrets for adoption page. And her ferrets that have been adopted page. And then just a few days ago I saw 2 ferrets for adoption on her page that I knew I'd seen somewhere else, they were also on the page of ferrets that had found a home. And they had been adopted BY Margerite, and now they were up for adoption! Why??? It was even the same pictures so I know it's not 2 ferrets with the same name as the ones she adopted. It was really sad because the one ferret, on the adopted page, says the ferret fell in love with her daughter. How does your daughter feel about you getting rid of her pet? Nice way to teach your children about responsibility and keeping pets. Another thing. You are so 'I am AFA member' and you adhere to their policy. Well I'm an AFA member too 7 years. I have read numerous times on your website that you have ferrets for adoption but they aren't available yet because you haven't done the ADV testing yet and you hope to get to it by the weekend. Not even that the results aren't back yet but you haven't even done it! Ummmmmmm the AFA members I know are pretty horrified by that I don't know what policy book your reading. Well like I said I thought I was the only one with concerns and I'm glad someone said something. [SP] [Posted in FML issue 4524]