Chana is right about pet store ferrets or any other pet store mammals, fish or bird if the market is not there then you would not see these creatures being displayed in these stores. The pet owning public are their own worst enemy as they continue to buy more and more pets, so that pets stores will continue to surply them. Its a vicious circle but if the pet owning public stop buying, then the circle is broken, no more problem. [log in to unmask] Registered Charity Number 1069533 http://www.webspawner.com/users/ferretwelfare/index.html http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/house-ferrets http://www.geocities.com/houseferrets13uk/index.html http://groups.msn.com/UKHouseFerretsSmallPetsAssociation http://www.headway.org.uk/ [Posted in FML issue 4270]