>From: John Rich <[log in to unmask]> > >Myself, living in a small, 'controlled', housing park makes it impossible >to even try to have prey around for food, hell, the owner wants $5 per >ferret as is!, God forbid a neighbor sees me feeding natural!....whereas >in Texas, Utah, England(rural), Australia, and all the other countries >with more open space, & less people per square mile than my State of New >Jersey, have more 'room' to have "out buildings" for what is needed! ...The devil? I honestly don't mean to be offensive, but do you have any idea what living in this country is actually like? I mean, outbuildings? ^^; You do realise that the majority of Australians live near the coastline, in ordinary old suburban environments? My husband and I rent a two-bedroom duplex with a decently-sized living room and kitchen with combined dining area, with a small sunroom/laundry extension out front (our ferrets sleep in the laundry). Quite spacious for two people, but certainly no extraneous /buildings/ - we don't even have a carspace (luckily we don't have a car either). And we're not even in a decently-sized city - just a relatively quiet suburb near the Port Kembla steelworks*. My point is, just because we have all this space, doesn't mean everybody has lots of space. Huge amounts of it are uninhabitable (at least in a practical sense and by humans) for a start, and even though plenty of space is /available/, it's rarely affordable. In rural areas, sure - but in suburban areas, like for the majority? No ^^; Anyway, as far as ferrets go, I'm just saying that tremendous amounts of the population here (especially singles and students) still rent small, controlled (strata-managed... ugh!) places just like yours. We were lucky enough to find an agent willing to allow our ferrets as it was (we were almost homeless for a while there - we literally found our new place the day before we had to move out of the old one). Most apartments available in the suburbs don't allow any pets at all. (*Makes for gorgeous industrial-post-apocalyptic looking sunsets when the fires are going - I'm told they're like something out of Blade Runner.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - Fox Lee: The Girl Your Mother Warned You About http://hypercrescendo.net/foxlee/fls/ http://www.furbiddenrealms.com http://blurty.com/users/leechimera/ "'Vague' and 'useless' are not mutually exclusive to 'accurate'." "Ah, rather like a Microsoft tech support bulletin." - Robert Scott Clark and Hong Ooi, rec.games.frp.dnd [Posted in FML issue 5207]