I friend of mine that knows my love for these little kritters, sent me a copy of a e-news that her boyfriend gets. (Aheadofnews.com) Dated Jan 8th 2003 A man in the Portland area is expanding his busness of renting ferrets to salt lake, Seattle, and Boise... I don't know if I can put his name so I wouldn't but if you want it just drop me a line..or check the address above. my question is who is looking after the welfare of these poor ferrets?.. as a foster mom and being around a shelter I've seen what a kid goes thru after being with a family for a while then turned in to the shelter... I've nuirsed and lost a few along the way that didn't bounce back. West coasters why didn't you see this and do any of us want to see this in our city? I know I don't want one here its bad enough we have the pet stores to deal with. It sounded kind of cool at first give people a chance to know our kids but after a one hour parenting class and 30.00 you can take you ferret home for a month... and all of us know that one hour is NOT enough time to explain ferretize to anyone... I guess I'll get off my box now just needed to get this off my chest...and see what others think of this DEB the Watcher of fuzzy little feet [Moderator's note: Aheadofnews.com is a joke site -- has lots of silly stuff like that article on there. I'm happy to say it's a joke. BIG] [Posted in FML issue 4024]