I disagree. If Elena feel her critter's safety has been in the past, and might be in the future, compromised, and there is a possibility that her own safety might be compromised, reading the PM may serve to help her decide that the safety of her critters and possibly herself comes first. Hiding the PM may be doing her a disservice.
Okay good news. I talked to Casey tonight. She was really beating herself up. She has a lot of trouble dealing with stressful situations and with anxiety and she's horrible with conveying things in text.
She is very sorry for what happened and allowing it to continue on the thread without participating.
So I have the mouse, she gave her to me on her own will and she is very healthy and happy.
Thank you all for supporting Stina through this and I am grateful for a happy ending.
Thank you Casey for doing the right thing.
Elena selflessly kept my doe and her litter safe from casey and met with my husband and I today to make the trade 
........are we still trading???!!!....are you freaking kidding me.....HECK NO! NOT A CHANCE IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!! First of all you can't trade something that NEVER BELONGED TO YOU in the first place.......second, I never offered a "trade".....I made a peace offering initially when the mouse was first taken saying casey could have a couple doe babies....this was before most of the insanity ensued and was purely an effort to settle things peacefully. That offer was declined by casey....who wouldn't even acknowledge it really....but now all of the sudden that was the arrangement???? I don't think so. I chose not to respond to the pm.....hubby and I had plans with elena to get the doe and her litter (along with a foster doe for some of the bubs and 2 mice for other people as well)...however elena would not have been able to take casey's buck at that time (we would have been meeting her on route to someplace she couldn't take any mice), so unless casey came and got the buck herself, I am planning on seeing elena around the 4th of july and would have given casey her buck then. I want to emphasize that casey has made NO effort WHATSOEVER to make anything right here.......to donate any gas money, to do any driving, she did nothing but give the doe to elena and issue her "apologies." Yesterday I recieved this pm from Casey..........OUR litter??? I think not. Uncomfortable???....kiss my tooshie. This pm, with casey's clear beliefs that she is still somehow entitled to any of these mice, made ME so uncomfortable (not with elena....who directed casey to speak to me, since the mice did not belong to her...but with the idea that casey may do something ridiculous to get some of the bubs) that we scrapped the weekend's plan (which would have had us meeting elena an hour from our home) to instead drive up to Canandaigua and meet Elena who drove down to meet us (THANK YOU AGAIN ELENA) today to get MY mice and get casey's buck en route to her. Now it is over and done. The mice are where they belong finally! I am SO happy to be done with this!! 
