Hi All, I am still forced to start dooking again every once in awhile as I open my mail! Last Saturday there were two envelopes addresses to F.A.N.G.! I opened the 1st to find a nice check for $20 and a note saying "Now Kelleen, NO DOOKING!". Sorry but I just couldn't help myself ya know?? <GG> Then I opened the 2nd to find a check for $50 from an FML'er saying this donation was in memory of her wonderful ferret that recently crossed over the Rainbow Bridge (I'm afraid I must confess that my dooking became louder and even more frequent after this one!) We THANK YOU both from the bottom of our hearts for your generosity and caring. Since Little Rocki is going to the vet Tuesday morning for bloodwork and a urinalysis this extra money could not have arrived at a better time! Doc. Williams has been consulted and he thinks this could possibly be a kidney or bladder infection or both. Either way if it is this we must act quickly to save little Rocki and we most definitely will! About a week ago I wrote to a lady that said she knew where to get the clear dryer hose and asked what I would have to bribe her with to get her to buy us some and send it to us and I would reimburse her.<GGG> :-))) Well, wouldn't you know it but this wonderful lady wrote back the next day saying she had gone and bought the hose and had it ready to ship but wanted to verify our address. She also said being as we are a shelter that she was donating it to us and to forget the bribe or the reimbursement!! Another great person out there. Oh, so you know most of the tubes were intended for the shelter kids anyway. Any I myself use for my kids I will put money into the shelter fund for keeping them. THANK YOU WONDERFUL LADY!! And last but sure as heck not least, the good FML friend that recently sent us $40 towards postage fees called me long distance the other day and said he has all kinds of ferret products that he over ordered on or that his kids will no longer eat and he is shipping us a wonderful care package of those items. It will be arriving soon. This package will contain many items some of which are, Totally Ferret food, ferretone, and many herbal remedies that have been used with success in treating ferrets. Heck he is even throwing in an herbal treatment that may help with MY Severe Clinical Depression!! WOW, what a gift to get!! Me and my INSANE 10 consider this man to be a very special friend of ours and we love him very much for all the help he is giving us. Being a brand new shelter with little funding can really make it hard at times but with the help of people like these I mentioned above, and those mentioned in the past, we can accomplish anything!! THANK YOU AGAIN very special friend, you are one of the few great men we have had the pleasure to know in our lives!! So this is something some of you may want to think about. If you happen to have ferret food or other items that your fuzzys no longer will eat or play with etc..... then do not throw them out but send them to the shelter of your choice. We are thrilled to receive such gifts and I am sure the other shelters would feel the same. Sometimes we may not have $$$ to spare but we do have these extra or unused items lieing around. Just a thought. THANK YOU ALL FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR FURRY LITTLE HEARTS!!!!!!!!! Kelleen & the INSANE Animal House [Posted in FML issue 1527]