Hello again, You may remember that a few weeks ago I posted a letter about wood shavings of all types that were being sold at PETsMART.com in the so called ferret store. At the time I asked all of you to please send of an e-mail about how dangerous wood chips can be to ferrets. Well I am happy to say that they have changed the page on the ferret shop a little, but they still haven't done enough sure they have stopped selling cedar chips in the ferret shop, BUT there still selling pine chips. I also have to tell everyone that we received a slap in the face from PETsMART in there monthly (e-mail) magazine. Which should really be call a sales paper not a magazine because it only contains a few articles found at the very bottom of the page the rest of the thing is just one big sales ad. The slap in the face came in the form of an article listed under small pets titled litter and bedding ((((((http://www.petsmart.com/articles/article_115.shtml))))). If you take a look at this article you will see a picture of a ferret that anyone can see (although I was once a photography student, and can see this stuff a mile away) appears to have been altered. In short the ferret in the picture is laying on wood shavings. ((SLAP)) Och! Come on PETsMART when are you going to learn that ferrets are just that ferrets, and not over grown hamsters! To add to the slap in the face, the article has some things to say that just aren't true. Don't they know, we know our animals we also know the facts. Why do companies sell things for pets that they just don't know anything about. I guess it all boils down to the almighty dollar. I could go on blowing off steam about the treatment that ferret owners every where are receiving from PETsMART but I have two little fuzz butts biting on my toes. Because they want me to stop typing this letter and go to The Ferret Store the only real ferret shop on the net. Anyone care to comment on the article I'd love to hear from you, Geoff Riki & Daisy [Posted in FML issue 3173]