jen... LOL..you opened up a can of worms!!...LOL... but...for MY 2 cents worth... and i used to work at a pet store too...who only got their ferrets from Marshall Farms... they ARE the best socialized kits i have ever seen... a pet store is usually a person's first experience with ferrets...and it is great that mf handles their kits in the manner they do...sure some seem to come into the stores too young..but the majority of them are just right... i ONCE got a ferret kit that was a Path Valley instead of a mf when the pet store here switched breeders once...he was NOT as nice as my mf kits...and it is b/c of him that i have 2 groups of ferrets now...he is not nice to some of my others...[i have 17...not all pet store ferrets...i have gotten some from shelters and some from ppl wanting to get rid of theirs and 3 i am fostering for a friend temporarily...] there are many "anti-Marshall Farm" people...but for MY 2 cents...they are great ferrets!!! love, kat KITY= .. =KAT... ( a.k.a. ...FuzzieMom ) and the krew of "14 plus 3" Rascal, Sassy, Wolfie, Monkey(Shine), Meeja, Narmy, PopPye, Noodles, Sandi-Mandi, Hope-HollyHeart, Edison!, Lucky, Princess Cissy, and Uh-Oh!!!! with Jack, Sassy, and Angel...staying for a while..:) And holding "Bear" and "Geezer" close in my Heart... Missing pieces of my heart...Marcel, LittleWhiteGirl, OldGuy, and the biggest piece of my heart, Charlie! The Ferrets' Pages... http://www.geocities.com/ferretlover97 [Posted in FML issue 3295]