#1-Your office is simple yet, comfortable, inviting and filled with all kinds of neat ferret things to raise money for ferret rescues. You didn't spend all kinds of money on useless fancy furniture or fancy tapestries for your walls because you knew that your patients would be more impressed with the quality care you can provide by spending that money on equipment and instruments needed to make us better. Your office smells better than most too. #2-When I am having a particularly hard time and mom has to give me ouchy sub- Q's you have always talked to my very worried mommy when she calls (sometimes leaving a patients room). Daddy say's your my Mommy's Lighthouse in stormy seas. Don't worry though, my mommy is getting far too good at this (OUCHY) sub-Q's thing now. #3-I remember the time you came 3 and a half hours over to give a seminar on ferret emergencies, teaching our rescue how to save other fuzzy kids like me in medical distress. You even took one of my buddies (Feivel) home that day because you didn't like the way his pee looked. Feivel stayed with you for a while and now he is playing and up to his old tricks because you gave him new medicine and a new diet. Do you think you could give him a tranquilizer though because, he still picks on me when I go to visit him. I think he's hyperactive. #4-3 years ago when my mom heard an awful story about a baby ferret that was taken away from her 11 year old mommy and killed for a rabies test she got real mad and decided to change the law. Mom and the Brevard Ferret Lovers Rescue Inc. talked to a lady, Stevie Rudder in Jax. and Ms. Rudder called you, gave you our number and you called to help. Did you know that you and Dr. Collins (University of Florida, small animal medicine) were the only vets to volunteer your time to speak on our behalf. I wish I could have been there when you went before the Brevard Legislative Committee meeting in Nov. 96. Mom said they gave you more time than the county commissioners were given to speak because, you had sooo much to say in our defense. The day after the meeting mom found a sponsor (Rep. Howard Futch) to draft our bill (HB3115). Mr. Futch said he was very impressed with your impassioned speech since, you didn't even have to look at note cards to give it. #5-Your staff, Kathy, the Michelle's and all the rest are so kind and professional to boot. When we came too early one morning Michelle was going to the bagel shop and even took our order. When she came back she took the time to show mom how to give sub-Q's in different places so I wouldn't get too sore or tough. Thank you Michelle! #6-I'm real glad that you're. a vegetarian. Atleast I know you won't eat me midway through my exam if you get hungry. #7-My Dr. K. treats wildlife. She has 3 bats she rescued and she's trying to find a new home for the bat colony they came from Her bats are so cute. They look just like us but, with a wing (they lost the other wing in a battle with a cat), she potty paper trained them and built them a really nice condo inside her office she carries one of them in her pocket sometimes (he's so little). Mom said you probably won't read this Dr. K. but, I am hoping that those who don't know you as well as we do will understand that, the Dr. K. we know and Love so very much is soooo much nicer than they realize. In all the time we have known each other I have never known you to put a dollar sign before the health of a pet or for that matter a fuzzy foundling. For all of you my friends who care to listen, know that my Dr. K. cries on the inside (sometimes on the outside too when we're not looking) for her patients that hurt and well gosh, even though she's a human, she hurts too and-that breaks my, lil heart. Kisses and Snuggles to All Max Footnote from Max's Mom: Please keep Max in your prayers, he needs them right now. Thank you Max's Mom [Posted in FML issue 2284]