Dear FML Friends, Before Christmas I posted a note asking for information regarding the proper amount of food a pet store should be feeding ferrets, kits in particular. If you recall I mentioned they were only feeding them twice a day. A number of you were kind enough to get back to me right away and confirm what I thought. That since ferrets have small digestive systems they need to eat every 3 to 4 hours and essentially the pet store was starving them. Armed with this information I knew the pet store was not going to listen to me or my "radical ferret friends". So I called my vet to ask if I could use her name when passing this information along. She not only agreed with the information my FML friends gave but said she would call the pet store owner herself and talk to them. This was more then I expected and worked out perfectly because here was the correct information coming from a licensed vet. (Thank you sooo much for your help Dr. Rudkowski - Allentown Animal Clinic!!) A day or two later I went back to the pet store to ensure that the owner was "open" feeding the ferrets. He was. I introduced myself and appologize to the man that I was "somewhat short" with earlier in the week. As it turned out he was only the manager and the owner was there. The owner thanked me for having my vet call him and was glad that I stopped by again. He wanted to thank me personally for bring this to his attention. He said; "you know I've been in this business 20 years and you think you know everything, and there is always some animal rights radical coming and telling you how to do your job. I probably would NOT have listened to you but since you had a vet call me I double checked with my vet and you are correct." He also asked me for the name and number of my vet, the website for ferret central where he can obtain more ferret info and passed the info along to his wife who runs another pet store in the state. Fortunately this story has a happy ending. I'm sorry for the ferrets that have suffered previously but "we" (the ferret community) have made another small step. I would like to send a special thank you out to those that responded to me directly and I'm sorry the followup e-mail took so long. BIG as always thank you for your dedication. Gina [Posted in FML issue 2924]