Hi, An anonymous poster wrote yesterday: >I have come to the conclusion that maybe it is not the kids but maybe >the shelter owner that is the reason the kids are not getting picked. Although I can't speak for anyone else - that certainly is not how I pick fuzzkids from the Giving Tree. I scan the little faces and pick the ones who 'connect' for me in some special way. Can't articulate what it is exactly in that face that calls to me. Then I read their stories. What captures me are the faces and their stories and that is how I pick, irrespective of where they are, or who the shelter is. My gift is for the fuzzkid/s and not for the shelter or whoever runs it. I neither expect nor particularly want acknowledgement or a thank you. I know without a doubt, that the fuzzkid will be happy in their own dooky way, and that is thanks enough. Tressie Chair Ferret Lovers Society of Atlantic Canada http://www.flsatlanticcanada.org/ [Posted in FML 6184]