Andrea and Leigh-Ann, Thanks for writing back about PETA. I think that 90% of the work that PETA does is good and important - like educating people about fur, promoting cruelty free products, giving sources for good vegetarian recipes.... lots of cool stuff. But I don't always like their tactics and I don't like the idea that I couldn't easily bring Wednesday to a rally to demonstrate on behalf of her animal cousins. (Wedn' adores being out in a crowd, and I think she'd melt the hearts of prospective mink-buyers who might not realize what wondrous creatures they are setting out to wear). I think adoption of pets is a good idea, and we got our second ferret thusly, but the badness of many pet stores does not mean that animal companions are bad and I wish I could convince them of that so that Wedn' could join the activism effort. Cheers, Geri, Manny, Wednesday and Roddenberry, also PETA members... [Posted in FML issue 0796]