We're most upset with the changes we've just been advised of with the distribution of Totally Ferret and wonder if they're doing the same thing in other areas of the country? Our business (pet supplies and shelter) has been using Totally Ferret for our shelter ferrets for the past 5 years (since we first opened our public shelter) and promoting and selling it to our customers. We've gone through the bad batches of food, the recalls, the failure to acknowledge problems with their product and now we receive a letter telling us we can no longer by directly from them. We're just too small. (A $2,000 minimum order has never seemed small to us.) A month after they raised their prices to us, Performance Foods has now announced that if we want to use/sell Totally Ferret we can no longer purchase through them, but instead must purchase from African North West. This company is based in Seattle, they are primarily an animal supplier to pet stores. They sell sick and pregnant animnals to all of the worst pet stores in our area and we will not and cannot in good conscience, do business with this company. We have never sold, nor promoted Marshall Farm products, primarily because they distribute our ferret friends and dogs to laboratories. We are therefore announcing to our customers that we can no longer provide them with Totally Ferret food. I've gone back through the FML archives and ferreted out ;-) all of the posts on food that I can find. We have switched our shelter ferrets to The Ferret Stores Superior Choice, which we will continue to carry. But I'm looking for other high quality foods to offer our ferret customers in the Seattle area. I've zoomed in on Ultimate by 8 in 1, perhaps Mazuri and Zupreme. Staying away from the cat foods, I'd really like comments about these 4 foods as well as other foods you may think are excellent quality for our companions. Food has been discussed numerous times on the FML, so please feel free to write me directly if you feel this might only be of interest to me and boring to others. Thanks in advance! :-) Sandi Best Little Rabbit, Rodent & Ferret House House Rabbit Society a non-profit animal shelter 14325 Lake City Way NE Seattle, WA 98125 (206)365-9105 or visit our on-line store at: http://www.rabbitrodentferret.org [Posted in FML issue 3389]