Dear FMLer's Below is a message I sent out to most of the Florida Shelters this morning. Fully realizing I was probably going to be considered "crazy" I sent it anyway. I cannot tell you what it feels like for your shelter to be heavily damaged, parts totally destroyed -- but it is no lie when I say -- there are days around here when I just simply sit down and cry as the peak of Hurricane season gets closer. My doctors say I have PTSD - bull puck I've been there and done that - I'm just plain old scared out of my mind that it will happen again. So anyway here's the message I sent. Feel free to send me nasty e-mail if you want Hi group! Hope you all got my message about my shelter closing from August till October 15 (due to Hurricane season. Having been hit by two very bad hurricanes I just want to throw something out to all you guys. Maybe we (Florida Shelters) should go on the FML and ask if there are shelters up north that could or possibly would consider sheltering our ferrets during Hurricane Season. I would be perfectly willing to send spare cages and bedding and stuff. We might even be able to find a couple of people to ferry the ferrets up north and them Ferry them back. I could take a few days off, borrow Larry's car and transport some. This might sound ridiculous to a lot of you but if your shelter has been hit by a hurricane the idea of shipping kids up north is no so crazy. Anyway just my two cent worth. Per Chance we could have a discussion on this as peak season is coming SOON! Thank you for supporting our shelter Chere McCoy Ferret Friends of Indian River County 8775 20th Street, Lot 614 Vero Beach, FL 32966-3065 A "NO KILL" shelter since January 1991 [Posted in FML issue 4954]