Please go to the following link and email or call the governmental authorities to ask for help for the animals left behind in Katrina's wake. There are many still trapped in houses and we all know that ferrets are the least likely to survive without food and water, trapped in a cage, no way out.... https://community.hsus.org/campaign/katrina_governmentresponse I'm still having nightmares about those left behind. It fills me with anquish knowing there may be ferrets trapped in their cages with no food and water by now, and the officials won't let people in to rescue them or officially help them. What some may not know is that the authorities have told those that are rescuing people and the reporters NOT to rescue the animals, to save room for the humans and they wouldn't let animal rescuers in to all parts of the area. By now most of the humans that wanted to be rescued are and there is no reason not to help rescue the animals. I keep seeing the faces of those left behind on the newscasts and I know there are those we don't see, it haunts my sleep and my waking hours.. Please take a few minutes to email or call to ask for help for those that cannot speak in our language - they do speak with their crying meows, howling barks and with their pleading eyes - yet the authorities don't care that the those innocent victims are starving and dying of dehydration, not understanding why their people don't come to feed and water them, why they were left behind.... Please, I implore you to help them.... troy lynn www.ferretfamilyservices.org [Posted in FML issue 5004]