I received a very special gift from one of you . In the accompanying letter the gift giver stated that the enclosed $1.00 seemed hardy worth the sending but that it was all they had just now due to a huge vet. bill for one of their precious babies. After all in this day and age what can one little dollar buy? It can buy a life, thats what! A ferret can go into a severe shock if it has a reaction to a vaccination.. and sometimes that shock doesn't happen for several hours after the injection is administered, so the vets office may be long since shut down for the day when it hits. If that fuzzy does not get the injection to counteract the allergic shock it can die very very quickly. At the least it will go thru Hell and so will the family as they watch their little one go limp and then perhaps begin vomiting and convulsing and worse. The cost of the antihistimine in the injection?... one dollar! When a fuzzy suffers a severe laceration [cut] from something sharp in its play area the cut must be closed to save its life. The cost of the sutures to close a cut like that?..one dollar! There are too many such examples to count when you look around an infirmary for treatment of ferrets and their illnesses and mishaps. So what is the value of that single dollar that person scraped to send in to help us care for the hurt little ones? The difference between life and death for a fuzzy in serious trouble, thats its value! Please, every single one of you who has sent a gift to a rescue Mom, take a moment to realize just what those funds can and will do for those needy fuzzys. And those of you that feel badly because your gift isn't measured in multi-digits, who possibly feel its not enough to bother with, or not enough to be noticed by the Mom running the rescue center you send it to, please listen to me! That gift you feel is too insignificant to do any good may be the difference between recovery and a fatality. What were my thoughts when I opened that envelope and found that dollar inside? it was 'Thank You, Thats one more precious little one I can save!' When you sit and play with your fur kids please look at them long and hard and know that every rescue Mom values each and every gift she receives for her rescue efforts and that even one little dollar can give back love and life to a funny face just like the one you are holding in your loving hands. Remember, every one of us, engaged in this loving service, ends each day thanking our Higher Power over and over for all of you that give so generously of the support without which we could not do what we do. Bless You, every one of you, for your prayers and your life giving gifts! dayna dayna frazier 102046,3162 'resident of the 'Marvellous Menagerie of Mirthful Mayhem' MMOMM!!! [Posted in FML issue 1595]