Instead of everyone trying and or bashing Marshalls for their practices.. why don't we concentrate on the real issue here.. Yes, if they are sending ferrets out for testing purposes.. why don't they concentrate on using them for ferret research? To research and stop or limit the diseases that "all" ferrets seem to incounter. Yes, there seems to be more Marshalls ferrets sick but that's is strickly because they sell more. Let's get to the real issue.. Homeless ferrets. Why stop Marshalls.. they are not going to stop and I for one am not about to let a elder ferret sit in a pet store when he /she can be in my loving home.. You bet your rear I will snap them up. So, stopping Marshalls from breeding is not going to happen unless they are proven to be unfit to do so. But, here ya go.. what about storming Petco and places as such that sell them? Why not beraid their owners, managers, people with facts like how many are in shelter.. show them pics... statistc etc with how many are homeless thanks to their lack of concern? How many of their employees are educated enough to educate the people that take them home? Why are they not held responsible for ferrets they sell? Why are they not made responsible for selling ferrets that get these horrible cancers, They need to be.. They need to be shown the newspaper clippings of Utah... and all the shelters and all the sick babies. Bring a tear to their eyes for a change, the big brass not the employee that can't do anything.. Try that one for a change. If no store will buy from Marshalls then marshall will at least have to down scale. That the heart that ya'll have to concentrate on... Get the store that sell them.. talk to the managers.. go higher show the pics show them all the shelter sites... Get marshalls that way.. then hopefully you wont have to see any four month old ferrets with sad looks in their eyes looking back at you through pet store plexiglass or bars Sincerely Leanne B Mom to Cali, Rascal, Tigger, Pugs, Cocoa and thanks to the FML Jewels [Posted in FML issue 3624]