Sukie, You posted and emailed the following: >I'm afraid that sadly it is not news that a lot of past input has >indicated that apparently deafness substantially increases the abuse of >ferrets; through the years shelters and rehabbers have posted time and >again about this.... >A similar problem can be found with some other deaf animals. That is >a good part of the reason why Wolfy went to the trouble of creating the >deaf ferrets list... And I will say that I myself appreciate Wolfy's part of the website because after I found out about Julia being deaf, I joined the FML (found about it through a friend), and Wolfy's website was one of the ones that I checked when I looked for info for my Julia. But, when I read her post the other day, it seemed as if she was saying that deaf ferrets are subject to abuse instead of may be subject to abuse, and I was offended because I would never think of harming her because of a disability, and I know other people who would do what was in the best interest of their deaf ferrets as well. I thought that it was a very general statement that could be perceived as offensive to those of us who do care for our ferrets well. That was all Jennifer [Posted in FML issue 4885]