>Please do not forget the shelters that do NOT breed that do not give >adequate time to each ferret. Or the breeders that do not run a shelter. >Or the no shelter and non breeder individuals. Its not hard to find >people that fit in any of those categories. Not hard at all - >unfortunately. You are right of course. :-) Everyone remember the Arcadia, Fredonia and numerous other breeder rescues? The posts on flea ridden, starving ferrets rescued/bought from individuals? And the shelters that never let their ferrets out of the cages or consider sanitation to be cleaning the litter boxes once week. (yes, cleaning litter boxes is a pet peeve of mine. After going through ECE it only enforced my thinking on sanitation - which was pretty strong to begin with.) So very sad. I'm working a particularly difficult shelter/breeder case right now and I was so totally focused on that issue that I did't include the above. Thanks for pointing it out! There can be good and bad in all. But what do we do with the particularly bad - the ones that are harming the ferrets? Anyone? Hugs. tle [Posted in FML issue 2317]