1. Anyone who sends out bad mouthing letters using someone else's name falsely is likely to also be lying through his or her teeth about the subject which is being addressed. In this case it was health accusations about a shelter. 2. Since the closing of the Fuzztek ADV+ ONLY shelter branch there has been a void which badly needs filling. Until there are shelters for such positive ferrets the shelterers -- who have already proven their love for ferrets 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, month after month and year after year -- will have to make absolutely heartbreaking choices to protect most of the shelter ferrets when ADV + ferrets show up but no one on their adoption list with ADV+ homes can take those ferrets, either because they are actively shedding or because they are simply too ill during an already hard time. It is a tall order to fill, but if someone is looking for a very hard and incredibly loving thing to do then providing a shelter for only ADV+ ferrets would be a great gift to ferretdom. 3. Feel very free to share the letter I wrote about my name being falsely used on that letter, and feel very free to share this letter, too. 4. There will always be some destructive -- possibly even dangerously insane -- people out there who like to hurt other ferret people. When you get an ugly email -- especially if it comes from an address you do not recognize even if you do recognize the name -- CHECK to make sure that some crazy jerk isn't abusing your trust and decency as well as abusing the target of the letter and the person who is faced with an imposter. -- Sukie (not a vet) Ferret Health List co-moderator http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/ferrethealth FHL Archives fan http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ replacing http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org International Ferret Congress advisor http://www.ferretcongress.org [Posted in FML issue 5035]