Hi everyone, Tammy and company here.
 
I went to a pet store yesterday evening to get food for the kids and was
horrified with what I found. Please if anyone is familiar with this and
can ease my mind, please do.
First, it is my experience that small rubber balls commonly called
"superballs" are a great hazard for ferrets. Jake found one when he was 6
months old and destroyed it only to set me into a frenzie looking for all
the pieces to make sure he did not swallow any.
Second, as I understand from others here, foam is a definate no, no.
 
Well my point, in the pet store they had a special place for ferret stuff
and I found a whole section of toys, labeled specificall Ferret Toys,
with a picture of a ferret. These toys included " superballs" and foam
balls and various other balls that I didn't have a problem with except
they looked very low quality and I wouldn't have paid a $.25 for any of them.
The company used a logo of VIP "very important pets" and their name is Vo
Toys they are out of Harrison, NJ. That was the only info on the
packaging.
 
I was very upset to find such toys packaged specially for ferrets and
became very irate with the sales person ( who was not a fault and agreed
totally with my anger). I plan to research the company a little more and
write a not so nice but very informative letter to them and possibly the
pet store to stop carrying these products. As I said before, please, if
anyone knows anything about this that I don't let me know, I would feel
better knowing others opinion on this matter before I go half cocked
complaining to the company.
 
Thank you for your time,
Tammy and company     Jake, Ozzy, Randy, Zak, Sammy and Sunny
[Posted in FML issue 1001]