>About taking them in Target and restaurants. They allowed this? I'd >love to hear more info about allowing pets in businesses. > >I wasn't the one who asked about the cavies, that was someone else :) To tell the truth I've never asked. But this is a retirement community and lots of the older women take their little dogs into stores in their purses, baby baskets, picnic baskets etc. Ferrets are generally quiet. The only time I ran into a problem was at the return center in Walmart which shares space with the McDonalds. LOL! I had been standing there for 20 min! Waiting. No one said anything till it was almost my turn! I told them to get bent (nicely) and that my ferrets and I would be leaving as soon as my exchange was finished. Their only concern was the proximity to the restaurant. Which in hindsight I had never really come close to. I always entered through the garden area, went to pets and checked out in the sporting goods dept. Quick and easy. I saw their point but it didn't stop me from taking the ferts there, I just make sure I don't have returns those days. Target too. Ours has a food court but I've never heard anything there in the way of a complaint. Again I enter through the garden center and check out there, cause its quick. AND the grocery stores. I swear I really thought I would have been asked to leave or at least to not bring an animal in there, but even though managers have stopped me to look, pet and ask questions, and I have held impromptu ferret ownership lessons in the cereal aisle, no one has asked me to leave or not bring the ferrets back. I consider myself lucky mostly. But I talk quietly, softly and depending on the attitude of the person, if they ask why is an animal in the store, I pretend it was a "sorta" emergency and it wasn't a stop I had planned. But I think I've only done that twice. So I think I will take two ferts to Walmart today! And really push my luck. We need more storage boxes for their toys anyway! Sharon [Posted in FML issue 3452]