To get your tickets for the Mandie MayDay Raffle, you should mail your checks ASAP. The raffle ends May 1st, May Day, appropriately enough. See the link below for details. If you need your checks cashed on a specific date, please note that in your correspondence. You may also email us at [log in to unmask] to make other purchase arrangements. <http://ferretsatheart.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=68&Itemid=84> Our sincere gratitude goes out to everyone that has simply sent in donations through PayPal for Mandie's surgery. Since we can't accept raffle ticket purchases through PayPal, because of PayPal's funny rules about "games of chance," we are very grateful so many of you have just given without thought of getting chances at something in return. We have received a recommendation to a different veterinarian who can also do Mandie's surgery at less cost, and we will be interviewing him this week. Yes, I did write "interviewing". Ferrets at Heart may not be able to afford everything we might wish for our furry charges, but they aren't going to be handed over to a vet with little experience with their species. I want to know why his surgeries are less expensive. I want to know what medications he plans to use. I want to know... I imagine he'll want to know something about Ferrets at Heart and Mandie too. With respect, Lori of Ferrets at Heart Huron, Ohio [log in to unmask] http://ferretsatheart.com/ ...and Rhys, Ayla, Codo, Mandie, Winter, Holly, Charlie, and Templeton [Posted in FML 7044]