There IS a BIG difference between someone who rescues a ferret and those that shelter AND rescue ferrets. Those that rescue/shelter ferrets, are legally in charge of rescue and fostering......ie.....have gone through the appropriate channels to BECOME a liscensed person to rescue AND shelter! They care for(tirelessly) these babies.......and at no matter what age or sickness.....ALWAYS seek out the perfect forever home! I know some people PERSONALLY that have adopted adreanal/insulinomic babies that were at deaths door.....JUST SO THEY WOULD HAVE THE LOVING HOME THEY DESERVED FOR THE SHORT TIME THEY HAD LEFT! NO ferret is UN-adoptable!!!!!!.... not in a sheter's eye! Not in the right home! A rescuer, is the saint that opens their heart to the fuzzie they know about....that is in a hurtful or neglectful situation. I MYSELF am one of them!!!!! Gizmo, at 2 years old, came to me after learning his littermate was already dead.........he was 1/2 pound and seized 3 times the 1st night we had him..........he is now 4 years old and happy and healthy....and I totally cried the 1st time the sweet boy danced.....and still tear up a little every time I see him dance!!!!!!! He is not, and by no means EVER, an adoptable ferret........he's MINE! THAT's the difference!!!!! The post earlier was shown as "bedding and rescue"......notice that bedding is listed 1st.........none of these ferrets are adoptable..... because they are hers........but the listing suggests we show sympathy and help her to care for those she rescued. WHAT ABOUT THE SHELTER FERRETS????????????????????????????? She takes away from these to support her own personnal ferrets! Not acceptable! To sell bedding to help with your ferrets is great.......but DON'T pull the heartstrings away from the ferrets in the shelters!!!!!!!!!! I hate it for anyone that doesn't see this........but I AM a rescuer......that tends to donate $$$ weekly to one shelter or another! If I need great bedding.....I go to ebay or links that I have and buy.......THAT is the place to get from her.......and she will use it towards hers ferrets.....hopefully. To openly take the heartstings of every human ferret lover away from a TRUE shelter is wrong! My opinion......~Kim [Posted in FML issue 4543]