I am almost ready to send the Shelter Update to BIG... just waiting for a few shelters to answer a few questions. Please save it when you receive it, in case you will want the information in the next 3 or 4 months. Thank you to everyone who has used the update as a source for supporting the shelters! For at least the first year, there did not seem to be much of a response, but now I hear indirectly about shelters receiving dollars in the mail, or receiving items off their wish list from The Ferret Store, Jeffers, etc. This is thrilling to me. It's exactly what I hoped for when I started the list: people becoming directly involved with the shelters. Of course, it has also been rewarding to help the neediest shelters when we have enough funds donated to do so. But there's something special about hearing that you are taking the information and using it yourselves to help the shelter ferrets and to relieve the burdens of the loving and dedicated shelter operators. Bless you all! [Posted in FML issue 2613]