You know what the reality is? 1. I get swamped with THANK YOU NOTES from many, many raw feeders each time I forward the alerts about which foods they need to avoid while a rare few complain, and the rare few who complain get rude about it. 2. I get swamped with THANK YOU NOTES each time I give kibble warnings (but not as many thank yous as for the meat recall notices) and no one complains, though the same few raw feeding people who complain when I give the warnings about things that are currently too dangerous to serve raw try to say it proves that they are right. (I wonder if saying this will stop that gut reaction of theirs this time since I sent in a pet food alert i just received.) 3. I almost never hear from the people who do made-at-home cooked food except for a gracious few. So, most people thank me. Why should I worry all that much about the people who are rude exceptions when they are rude to or about me personally as long as they don't misrepresent and as long as they don't expect me to drop everything else to help them day or night whenever they run into a medical problem and then turn around and figure they can kick me around and never show thanks? Most people appreciate the alerts and behave logically about them, not over-reacting, just as most people are wonderfully fair and kind about honoring the choices of others instead of nagging and harassing. The reality for those who don't know it is that most of the people who feed raw are every bit as kind and gracious and thankful for helpful info as those who feed kibble or food made at home. A noisy and rude few make them look like fanatics at times but the vast majority are not fanatics, they are just people who weigh the evidence differently from those of us who prefer kibble and honor the choices of others, even when they differ from their own. So, can all this silliness and rudeness be put to bed? Sukie (not a vet) Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html [Posted in FML 6064]