>Of course, the person quite possibly was an idiot.. But it seems strange >to me a pet store employee would try so hard to *stop* people buying these >ferrets. It seems more plausable this person didn't want these ferrets >sold for a good reason. Reet, that's a thought that occurred to me as well. If the person at the pet store had simply spouted off the usual negative ferret stereotypes, I would have just suspected he was an idiot. But the claim that the ferrets in the store had been bred with minks was a bit over the top. I suspect that he was intentionally trying to discourage people from buying those ferrets. While I do think that perhaps this fellow meant well, I also think he was a bit misguided. The people who posted the original story (and I'm sorry, but I can't remember your names) were pretending to be ferret-ignorant, but that's no excuse for the pet store person to discourage them from buying a ferret. True, he didn't know that they were more knowledgeable than they were letting on, but least by asking questions they were showing that they were willing to find out more. I wonder if perhaps this fellow (or one of his friends) wanted to buy the ferrets himself, so he was doing all he could to keep anyone else from buying them. Or he may have really been an idiot. Who knows? Dooks, Lisa Mom of Zorro, Claudia, Loki, Fezzik, Crysin, and Kyra Monchichi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Still, so still in the city tonight, twelve o'clock tick-tock, when all that is good slinks away like a beaten dog and the black black shadows are alive with the dead, twisted poetry in broken English, flesh and blood and staring faces... So grey and despairing, strong as steel but collapsed inside, the Crow laughs under a street light, a voodoo smile of one who lived and died and yet still lives... He makes his way home to where he can be shapeless in the dark and paint his face in the colours of joy... Tonight, hell sends an angel bearing gifts..." --J. O'Barr _The Crow_ [Posted in FML issue 3131]