The only Marshall Farm products I have are ferrets (not that I consider them products, but MF does). I love my three MF gals (two from pet stores, third and all future ones from a shelter). I will not support MF in other way than giving their ferrets a home and love. I do not want this company to make a profit at all, because of their interests in ferret mill-breeding for labs and pets. There are many other great ferret product lines available from companies that don't exploit ferrets, I would rather give these companies my business. This type of reasoning is also why I prefer to shop at petstores that don't sell pets, but only pet products. I don't think the solution is to make other MF lines more profitatble. If they make lots of money on ferret products then they are still going to want to breed ferrets, to insure that their are lots of fuzzies out there needing their products. To me it would be like if Phillip Morris Co made a profit on ashtrays, cigarette holders, and lighters. They would still keep up their cigarette line to create a demand for these other products. If their cigarette line wasn't as profitable, they may just reduce the quality (and thus the expense) of cigarettes to make them more profitable. I would not want this to happen with the breeding of ferrets. It is a nice idea, but I don't think any profit for MF is a good idea. Risa [Posted in FML issue 3769]