Recently we have received two types of mail (large amounts of the second) about the west coast. The first are alerts that donations will be needed for fuzzies which have been flooded out. (Totally reasonable, and when we learn how from the folks we know we will do so.) The second are letters which are specific for those on the west coast. Why folks suddenly think we are there we don't know, though we know there is a Suki (without the e) who has posted here at least once and has been mentioned in relation to chats (We aren't chat people, not saying that as if it's a bad thing -- it's just not us, just like suits and diamonds and rutabagas aren't.) so maybe she is on the west coast. We're the Crandalls (Sukie, Steve, Meltdown, 'Chopper the organic helicopter, Spot, Meeteetse, and Warp). Oh, and thanks for the recent spate of show invitations, but we don't show our guys though you can see some past and present on the skunk site (kind of wish we had let folks see Ruffle when she was well and alive as a warning of what can happen when trying to breed specific traits -- but she would never have been able to handle the emotional stress of a show and she was so pretty that some would never have gotten the points about her health and pain -- BTW, when Bob's schedule permits him to study Ruffie's skeleton in detail he is going to make that information available to the vets here in case they run into one like her; he's a good man); and we have not been able to attend local shows since March because risking bringing ECE into a household with cardiomyopathy just isn't fair to the ferrets. Meltdown is still here and happy. All this time is a gift. She is a LOT more stinky with it and that's wonderful for her emotionally. Sukie (the "ancient" one, with the "e", in N.J., and here in FML land for a very long time) http://skunk.research.att.com Do others' ferrets love polka music like our's do? How many own it just for the ferrets? [Posted in FML issue 1815]