Someone said the east coast shelters are too close to each other - well, from Vienna, VA - nearest shelter is Faith Hood in Falls Church, about 30 minutes away. Then there is a shelter in Richmond, about 2.5 hours, Lisa's in Virginia Beach is about 4 hours away. Then heading north is Barb Clay which is about 2 hours. Considering the traffic and population around here, there are not too many shelters in the Northern Virginia area. People are not always willing to drive hours to adopt a ferret when the pet store is 15 minutes away. For a few hours, I helped with the Hagerstown ferrets. They were sweet animals. Only a few biters. I saw the photographs of the breeder's chamber of horrors ... I adopted two wonderful ferrets from Barb :-) Nan and Jubal and Early [Posted in FML issue 4228]