OK not really. But how would dog lovers react if they saw this? Or cat lovers who saw a listing for a Persian cat skin? For a ferret lover to react unfavorably to a ferret pelt for sale is not pompous or hypocritical. I eat meat and have leather shoes, so if someone wants to sell cow hide or chicken feathers, that's fine with me. But I do not eat ferret meat, or wear fitch fur, just as I don't eat dog or cat meat, or wear dog or cat skins. (Zen points out that fitch fur was not uncommon early last century. That is irrelevant; dog and cat meat is eaten in some countries.) Objecting to the sale of the pelt of a domestic companion animal is fine. Not objecting is fine too. Neither position defines a person as good or bad. Tolerance for different viewpoints is good. Linda Iroff Oberlin OH [Posted in FML issue 3019]