Hello, This is my first post. Is everyone here aware that Marshall Farms also sell ferrets to laboratories for scientific experiments. They are the same company out of New York. I find it disturbing to see their one site that promotes warm and fuzzy ferrets frolicking around and their other one that describes how the Marshall ferret is an excellent research model. You cannot promote the welfare of the animal and then send it to be poked and prodded by butchering scientists. The ad for Marshall Ferrets is at this link http://home.comcast.net/~mustalayday/images/largemarsh.jpg The Marshall Pet webpage here http://www.marshallpet.com/ Here is an advertisement for Marshall farms in a Lab animal journal http://guide.labanimal.com/guide/companyd.jsp?b=4350 There are various other webpage's that describe experiments done on Marshall Ferrets Here is a link to boycott Marshall Farms http://home.comcast.net/~mustalayday/mf.htm I don't know if this is a dead issue on this FML but someone posted saying that Marshall Farms is not bad. We can't have people out there thinking that there is anything good about Marshall Farms. Just to remind everyone that they are not about the ferrets they are about the profit that they can make from them, at the ferrets expense. Sheila Garland [log in to unmask] "What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?" Jeremy Bentham, philosopher [Posted in FML issue 4308]