Thank you for the article info from PETA on Petco and Marshall Farms. I just read it. Sunny was left in the back room to die.It is just like the article Dee commented on. His brother and sister were also left in the back and were already dead. I did not realize this is what all Petco employees are told to do. I did not know this was on a corporate level. Read about the 72 charges of cruelty against Mr. Marshall from Marshall Farms, and their continued neglect of animals even after this. I read PETA stuff on-line about 2 years ago, but this was not there at the time. Well written. http://www.peta-online.org/feat/marsh/legal.html EVen non-newbes should read this to learn about Petco and remember the atrocities cited with Marshall Farms. The holocaust is never to be forgotten. People locked away in ghettos and then death camps. We need to know, refresh our memories of these atrocities, and teach our children. This inhumanity cannot be allowed to ever happen again. I believe that the same is true with animal atrocities. Who are we to say that their lives and suffering are of any less importance?? God loves ALL his creation. We need to first know that problems exist. Read about them, see the pictures, read what eye-witnesses testify to. I will have a number of children with me this weekend. We will look at this site and talk about what we have read. What can WE do?? A number of things. Read the article. Thank you for sharing this site Dee. If I had not recieved info from PETA several years ago--an organization I no longer support as there are others that are more in line with my thinking-I never would have learned of the other organizations I now belong to. And I would not have learned of pet store and MF atrocites. PETA has had its own share of activities that cannot reasonably be condoned. But the pictures and eye witness reports in the articles Dee would have us read are not to be ignored. Because I DID learn, I was able to go from pet store to pet store to make friends with the employees. Their trust in me has made me able to save the lives of several animals--including Sunny. ******But I had to read about the animal nightmare that exists first.****** You can do the same thing. The life of even one ferret could be saved. Maybe many. Thanks again Dee. Lisette [Moderator's notes: 1) A reminder that general PETA discussions are not appropriate for the FML. As they pertain to ferrets, however, is OK. 2) Pointers to these PETA articles first appeared on the FML in 1998 or perhaps even earlier. A search of the archives might prove instructive. Thanks! BIG] [Posted in FML issue 3168]