Mustang Charlie wrote: >I am familiar with ferret kits from Path Valley etc..... I can only speak from the experience I have with Path Valley. I have two gorgeous ferrets that were obtained when they were kits that are Path Valley. One is a beautiful Marked White that I am considering entering in the Florida Ferret show. The second is a good looking Sable Siamese. They are both and have always been good boys. They never nipped more then my MF kids. BUT I have to agree the MF has beautiful and well socialized kits and my reason for suggesting that people urge stores to sell (if they are selling and will be continuing to sell) ferrets from a pets only breeder.. to make a point to MF that their ferrets deserve better then what they are handed by MF. I fully agree with MC that we are not going to stop pet stores for selling animals and that was why my main point was NOT to boycott MF ferrets but to boycott MF pet food and supplies. That way MF could be made aware of what ferret owners find so hard to accept about the ferrets that remain as breeders or the ferrets that are sold to labs. They could feel the loss of revenue from sales of their food, and supplies and no one would have to feel that IF they wanted the MF kit in the store that they were selling out. I would never bypass a kit no matter where it came from if I felt it needed a home NOW, or if I wanted it... It is time not to feel that if you get a pet store kit that you have to apologize. I also have ferrets from shelters. Bill Killian wrote: >Then we have to say you are wrong.......... First off I didn't say anything about research on ferrets for ferrets. Second I will again say that most medical research on ferrets is for convenience products. No matter how much nutra sweet you pump into a ferret it does not prove a thing.. (thus my comment on providing a check) The labs that MF solicits in their ads for the perfect lab animals are not labs to improve the lives of ferrets. I am sure you know "only good" lab people. How many of the multitudes of lab workers are you friends or at least that you have inside information about their motives. Are the medical schools that use ferrets to teach intabation also doing the ferrets a service? Seems that a ferret isn't willing being intabated over and over just because it is a great service to the ferret community. One question Zen.... are you willing to sell your kits to a lab to further the research for ferret diseases? And how about to a lab to study the effects of God knows what chemical at huge concentrations? Candy I couldn't agree with you more. Maureen [Posted in FML issue 2960]