Dagny, I completely agree with you. My ambition is to open a vet/animal store with my best friend who is studying to become a vet. I love animals and I am sick of all the petstores that give every single pet store a bad name. I only shop at a privately owned pet store, but they are snooty and over charge... I only shop there because of cheap crickets for my lizards. But they always give me attitude (except for the manager... he is so sweet; it seems only the owner, his wife, and their daughters are a-holes). A couple times the ferret babies did not have wet food and when i asked to hold them they bit really hard (hmmmmm, maybe they are HUNGRY) and their buttholes were swollen... I could barely spit out the words to tell the male owner bc he is so intimidating. He said they put wet food in every morning... well HELLO, it should be in there 24/7, not once a morning and then be removed!!! And he didn't say what he would do about their poor bottoms. I know they treat their animals well... just a little uninformed I think... I hope I helped those babies. When we open our vet/animal store... it will be for the animals... our only problem is before we sell them we might end up taking them all home and keep them! That is my two cents, Stephanie & my babies PS Anyone interested in my 3-story cage for sale? e-mail me ;) [Posted in FML issue 3798]