Maybe you can save this one for the next 3rd month on publishing about
Marshal's.  [No, it was that web page reprint I would only post every
3rd month. BIG]
 
There is an ulgy side to almost every industry.  I feel with my dealings
with MF is they do care about the petowner.  I purchased a kit 6 weeks old,
had her two or three weeks, discovered she was blind, confirmed it with the
vet, wrote MF and got a reply of two choices turn her over to a shelter and
go get another kit or keep her and get a $50 gift ertificate to pick out
ferret items.  Of course, I can't give her up but it was refreshing they
seemed to understand that could happen and gave a choice.
 
We have to have some experimentation in eliminating diseases.  We want to
think of everything rainbow bright, its not.  It is horrible to watch a
loved one wasted away with cancer or other disease but due to research some
of the disease has been eliminated or reduced.  I just wish they would do
testing and eliminate some of the problems ferrets have.  I usually cry
three times a week or more at the touching loss of a fuzzy in the FML.
 
Remember Small Pox, there were experiments to get that under control.
Those who eat meat, everytime you buy a steak at the store and grill it to
perfection, do you think about the slaughter house and that that piece of
meat belonged on a thinking breathing animal which had a personality at one
time and went through the fear it must have felt when its time was called.
How about eggs, those chickens live in a square tiny wire cage for 1 1/2
years til their peak producing time is over and then.....
 
Not all animals get to be pets.  We don't want to know the ulgy side but we
don't want to suffer and we run to the vet to treat our pets when they have
a problem.  Their knowledge did not come from out of a space ship, it was
through experimentation.  Those that were sacrificed paved the way for
others to live.  If they were raised for that purpose, then at least have
humain treatment before hand and I believe that is what MF is advertising
in their lab animals, they were raised right.
 
Don't get me wrong, I don't like the things humans do to animals but I do
understand it and I don't condemn those in the field.  I do condemn the
poor handling of animals and unnecessary cruelity.
[Posted in FML issue 2386]