Hello to all of you. Hope you are all hanging in there. Life is never easy. Lots of folks with anguish. Sons dying, or severe arthritis: some serious sadness befalls us all in our walk through this world. All we can do is our best, keep our aching backs as straight as health will allow, and keep our cups half full in our thoughts and in our hearts. Play with those ferrets, pray to your higher power, and do good for others. I am proud of Big for allowing such divergent thoughts on this farm in Ohio. There are sites where if you disagree with the beliefs of the host...your words are not printed. A number of you have experienced that by now. After looking at the pictures of this farm and reading the Affidavits... which were frankly so disturbing it was hard for me to read them all the way through... MFRAN web site with story, detailed affidavit, and photos: <http://www.mfran.org/Doug%20McKay/Doug%20McKay%20Foundation/Doug%20McKay%20Foundation.htm> If any of you ladies and gents have a lovely or really ugly but interesting item you would like to donate to raffle off to raise $$ for the shelters housing all these 100 some ferrets taken from the farm...please let us know ASAP. You will need to be able to send on a pic of the item through your puter. A small group of us wished to do something to help out and are compiling what we will raffle. Any ferret art that you have had awhile that you would like to donate? Or some pretty bedding? A gift certificate? Your hubby? (only if he can cook, please.) I thought of offering a stuffed ferret...Biscuit. Ever since I found him alive after he was somehow rescued from the snow storm...his new hobby is eating the cat food AND his. But he bit me on the lip when I kissed him this morning. So I am thinking he does not want to be raffled. You can also donate mullah, dineros, cashola, and pennies from heaven and send that on to: Mfran 1929 Charter, Lincoln Pk MI 48146 Also in the note section on the check please put DM Ferret Rescue **This is tax deductible!!!** OR: When the raffle comes out...check it out. Bid on something. Or say prayers for all involved in this rescue for continued strength and health to care for the ferrets. So if you can donate ...you would take a pic. And you would mail the winning item to the winner of that item. Gotta gold ferret statue that is too heavy for you to pick up and dust anymore? A potato in the shape of a ferret? The father of Anna Nicoles baby? email us today or tomorrow please. ScheidtC [@AOL.COM] or me. As always, thank you all very much for your love of the little ones. [Posted in FML 5541]