Nancy, It's QUITE possible that your address came from another source- The Pet Pals List. ONE (and only one) of our (GCFA) members also received a chainletter recently. We're 99.9999% certain that the culprit got the address from either their own company mailing list OR the GCFA membership directory. Could you send me e-mail with the text of the letter verbatim, so I can compare it with the one she got? It's sad when people of this ilk feel thery must resort to this activity for fund-raising. Our only hope is that they get professional help before they get themselves in real trouble, but it may be too late. ---- RE the GCFA show categories. The Geriatric / Handicapped classes were intro-dud when the GCFA show was sanctioned by IFA and were kept when we swuitched to FURO judging standards and then wehen we went independent. WE now use the LIFE judging scale of 100 points per ring for the Kit/Adult and Alter classes. We don't require that our ferrets have fancy two-or-three part pedigree type names or pedigrees as long as your arm to enter. ---- Having been connected with the GCFA show since their second, I have notice one distressing practice among some ferret owners. If their ferret isn't amassing sufficient points at a certain point during the show, that animal goes on the selling block. (This is not just at GCFA shows, but at others I've been to). I realize that some breeders are striving for a purity in breed or consistency in titles, but I just feel it's very shallow to sell a pet just because they didn'tmeasure up at one show. Let's face it - one set of judges may award differently than antother set and one show does not a consensus make. Just my opinion... ---- If you'd like a copy of the show aplication, drop me a net mail message and Ill see that one is mailed out. =========================================================================== |Roger.McMillian | Director, Greater Chicago Ferret Association | [log in to unmask] | Editor "Off the Paw" (GCFA Newsletter) | [log in to unmask] | Moderator"Ferret Forum" Echomail Conference | =========================================================================== YOU CAN TAKE AWAY MY FERRETS | SUPPORT THE EFFORTS TO LEGALIZE FERRETS IN WHEN YOU CAN PRY THEM LOOSE | ALL STATES AND LOCAL AREAS. IT'S EVERYONE'S FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! | FIGHT UNTIL IT'S EVERYONE'S RIGHT! =====================================================================[IFNS] [Posted in FML issue 0529]