to quote Jennifer: >She is a responsible breeder both with her dogs and with her ferrets. >Is she not allowed to have any other hobbies or interests besides >ferrets? Do you have other interests besides ferrets? Your website >says you do. There is just a slight difference between me and the Marguerite. Sure - I have lots of hobbies. Expensive ones, at that. And I work hard to support my addiction to expensive guitars and hiking gear. But I don't go around calling myself a "shelter" and asking people for money. I do sell a CD that I made that benefits a shelter - if anyone wants to see the income and expenses for that let me know - I can print it off in a second. to quote Marguerite: >I FIRMLY believe if you breed and don't rescue, you are not giving back >to that breed, being ferrets, dogs, cats or any other animal. Both >should go hand in hand. If you create life, then you should also help >life when they are down. I'm confused. Isn't the purpose of a ferret shelter to help with unwanted ferrets - and yet she's breeding more to contribute to the problem? I've never heard of a SHELTER that breeds. And breeding dogs as well when there's packed shelters full of dogs waiting for a home? And she thinks that taking in ferrets offsets the breeding of dogs and more ferrets? Actually they cancel eachother out - so in a sense, you're doing nothing. Perhaps I should post the 20 or so emails I received yesterday from various members of this group thanking me for what I posted the other day. And how when they have emailed her re: donations or questions she's lashed out at them just like she did to me - which is how this all started. So this isn't a "personal" attack it's merely one person brave enough to step up and say "whoa this is wrong". Laura and The Seattle Seven at http://www.ferretocious.com [Moderator's note: Well, I'd like to see the 20 e-mails, privately, of course. The notes I'm getting do NOT support what you're saying. I'm not implying you're imagining this, but I'm wondering why I people are only willing to comment on one side of the story if there is another. Perhaps seeing those notes will give me a clue. BIG] [Posted in FML issue 5003]