Hi gang I've been a lurker now for several months and enjoy this list very much. I have 2 ferts; Tikka, MF, m, sable standard, 2 yrs next month, and Alisheba, shelter adoption, f, chocolate point, almost 4 yrs. As for me, I'm 37 yrs SWF, very poor financially but extremely rich in love, living in northern VA. Reading scifi/fantasy and the fuzzballs is pretty much my life, oh yeah, I deliver pizza for a living. Sometimes Tikka decides I'm not allowed to leave the house without him so he helps in my deliveries ( he drives while I hold the pizza,hehe). Now that that is out of the way, basically I'm responding to a post mid-Dec ( slightly behind as you can see ) about those way cool plexi-glass ferret gates that sell for WAY too much. I made my own. Go to a hardware store and buy a big shhet of plexi-glass, mine is 36" x 30" I think, and stick it in the door. It stays put all by itself and is easily removed by pushing on it, ferrets don't have the strength to do it themselves though. The cost was vaguely around $20 as I recall. About that poor beaten fuzzy, there are LOTS of sentiments running through my brain. I too would have left that woman WAY before such a thing could happen ( or left with him when it did ) but to each his own. I feel the woman should feel the long arm of justice but think the man should be left out as he truly felt horrible about the situation. I'd be glad to join you Troy in your efforts as long as the husband is left alone, feel free to email me any info you have. Blessed be Taliesin ( Leslie) PS if emailing me, please be sure to state my name, either one, as I share my roomate's computer. Thanx gain. [Posted in FML issue 2170]