Gee Bill, it's been so nice since you dropped off the face of the ferret world. Since you decided to put your digs into me once again, I feel the need to respond. You really are a broken record, spewing your vile comments to goad folks into getting into a flame war with you. Ok, I'll bite. When you moved out west you dumped all your breeder ferrets on the Richmond Ferret Shelter with stipulations they were not to be altered. They didn't think much of it, fixed them and placed them. Not very responsible breeder practices, making a shelter pick up the cost for the spays and neuters, surgeries that you should have done in the first place before dumping them. Probably the best thing for those ferrets due to the number of accounts shared from your 'friends' on the conditions they were kept in. Seems like your place in Virginia wasn't much better than Doug McKays. Animal abusers tend to support other animal abusers. Hummm..... Bill's post: >Innuendo is still one of your tools. If you want to know, ask Bob. >Vickie McKimmey let us have ferrets after she visited out house. >Despite what she says now she gave approval in the past. Yeah, one of the most regrettable decisions I've ever made. Just note, that was your house in northern Virginia, not your farm near Winchester. >Too much of a generalization. Especially after your friends brought >in polecats. The most vicious ferret I've ever dealt with was one hob >Vickie McKimmey insisted on bringing to ferret shows. Its offspring >were almost as vicious. No, not vicious, they just didn't like you. You never really could handle ferrets well. I saw that first hand back when we were friends <cringe> and went to a Michigan show together. You had a particularly 'bad' ferret running loose in the hotel room and were afraid to catch it. Courtney had to do it. She was great with the ferrets. Too bad you didn't learn any handling tips from her. She would have been a great judge. I guess you aren't that up to date with Bob these days. I guess he hasn't told you about his experiences with polecats when he was in Europe last year. The last time Bob was at my place he told me all about it. Go ahead and flame away, dredge up all the old crap from over a decade ago. Better yet, just give everyone here a link to the fml archives, it's all there, click, it's all there, click, it's all there, click........oops sorry, my record must be broken. Vickie McKimmey Just a Business of Ferrets www.jbferret.com American Ferret Association Director of Shows and Special Events www.ferret.org [Posted in FML 5545]