This Shelter Debacle:As I never mentioned any names or addresses, I had no idea that it would be necessary to say any more about the alleged shelter with the name I cannot say that wanted a check in a persons name.. But I guess I had better. 1.I was not asked to write a check out in the name of the alleged corporation-but to a person. NONE of you have EVER asked me to do that. And I have written out a lot of checks to a lot of shelters. 2. I was given a phone number that was to belong to the alleged shelter. I called AT and T operator AND the operator of that town. The corporate name does not exist according to them in that town. The persons name does not exist in that town either. And I was told that the phone number was either unlisted or did not exist. Now you can all go on and discuss this if you wish. I did not write anything to start an arguement. Nor am I going to get in the middle of one. I just wished for the ferret poem book-remember??????? You can pick up the phone and check it out for yourselves if you think you know what the alleged name of the person is.. TWO people spent time checking it out for me. The AT and T operator and the local operator of the town told me the same thing. . May God strike me dead if this is not the 100% truth. Anyone can get their name on a list or put pictures on the web and say they are whatever or whoever..Happens all too often. Lists: I called many of the vets in my area that were on a list compiled by trustworthy respected people on the FML. Next to none did surgery on ferrets or felt comfortable seeing one. Some gave me dangerous misinformation: like that ferrets don't need any shots. I am in Ill. Look at the list of names written up by STAR that I found about 6 months ago.. Call these vets. Tell them your ferret needs adrenal surgery. See what happens for yourself. Anyone can get on a list. Web sights: In our town, someone put up a websight for custom blinds. It was, I guess, a great web sight. Lots of people apparently ordered the blinds and paid for them. There were no blinds. There was just a storefront a few blocks away from where I work. The article was in our local paper less than a year ago. Over $200,000 went into the hands of these con-artists that was known of at the time. Anyone can have a web sight.. And that is that. Do your own investigating. I can only tell you what my calls revealed. I have no reason to make this up. I did not even think this would ever be a matter for discussion. Lisette [Posted in FML issue 2872]