>From: ". Tiffany Hewkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Scarey stuff. Do see to reporting this to your ISP and theirsif you know it. I dont recognize things like signitures because Im on so many many lists and have a bad memory for people's names, so seeing "tj" didnt alert me to anythign, sorry. I appreciate your recent post setting things straight, no hard feelings. It wasnt specifically the post that "claimed to be from you" that upset me, its just the idea of postal shipping mammals in general. This topic comes up on many many lists (for rats, mie, hamsters etc.). I just can't comprehend how peopel can get so hostile with soemone for stating the fact of the law. Yes, ultimatly it IS their choice if they want to break the law or not and take the risks of that- just liek it is people's choice to use drugs or not, or to drink and smoke underage (which it is in my city)- but just at with drugs and alcohol and smoking- you may get away with it- or you may not, and you shoudl know hat COULD happen if you are caught. I feel its important to get the info out about it, so at least people KNOW the risks, and if just one person stops conciderign postal shipping, it was well worth it! I just want to clarify one thing: >they >said that gerbils were not listed as being unmailable, so they didn't >see a problem with it. BUT, that is here and it may be different< The rule book as its written states mammals as nonmailable, then provides 8examples* of nonmailable mammals. gerbils are not listed yes but other rodents (rats, mice ) ARE listed, and the rules do state those are examples only. This exact idea was used as a defense in a court case a few years backinvolving the shipping of birds by a hobby bird breeder. They tried getting out of the conviction by showing the species of birds they were shipping wasnt listed specifically as nonmailable. The court upheld the wording that the listed bird species were examples only and nonmailable species werenot limitted to that list. The person was still convicted. The same thing happened with spiders a while back also (the kind peopel keep for pets, tarantulas etc.) and eventually because someone kept insisting spiders were mailable insects (they arent insects they are archnids, closer related to say lobsters and crabs then say a beetle or ant), that they had to actually write in spiders specifically. Im not aware of any court cases of soemone doing this with gerbils, but it stands to reason if the species list question was brought up and struct down for a bird breeder, it would for a rodent breeder also. ~A.G. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
