Hi LIsa, My main concern stemmed from the fact that in the last 2 to 3 months there were 2 posts from Mr. Owings stating that he tripped and stepped on the two seperate ferrets and they died. If I was mistaken in my reading of these posts, I apologize. I am unable to do a search for these posts as they are not archived yet. My intent was not to harm anyone, only to try to help. I also stated in my post that I was very concerned about the frequency of his ferrets being missing for several days at a time. Here are the dates of his ferrets turning up missing etc. Feb 2002, Claims he got his first two ferrets. Vinnie and Shadow. March 2002, Mr. Owings introduces himself and says he has had 2 ferrets, both Vinnie Da Rat, one killed by dog, the other squished in his mattess. April 15, 2002 Vinnie Da Rat is found. April 16, 2002, Vinnie da Rat was badly mauled by a dog while he was out. May 2002 Vinnie III while recovering from the dog mauling was run over and killed by Mr. Owings wheel chair. Feb 13 2003 screen door open, ferrets escape. Feb 14 2003 Ferrets found Feb 18 2003 Vinnie dies, is stepped on by Mr. Owings. Now we get to the last couple of months which are not archived but will be. Two seperat posts with two seperate names of ferrets that were stepped on and killed. Closely followed by a post saying the new baby girl was lost for several days. Close on the heels of that post another saying Big Vinnie was lost for several days. Please feel free to do an archive search yourself. Mr. Owings has had several email names so a search of Owings, David, Vinnie are of the most help. I am not sure I got all of them. Again, my intent was not to do harm. I am very concerned and when concerned I do take the time to do a little research. I wish you would do the same. Also stated in my post was a very clear statement that I understood accidents happen,even two in a row. I have had accidents happen myself. My concern is and was, the same kind of accidents seem to keep happening. I have received a lot of emails privately stating that my concerns are shared by a lot of very good ferret owners. Perhaps one of them will step up and speak out now, perhaps not. It dosent matter, what does matter, is my conceince is clear. If yet another accident occurred because I was too of araid of other folks opinions my conceince would not be clear. Thank you so much for the polite and diplomatic way you handled yourself. HappyTails, Karen and the Scruff You Gang [Posted in FML issue 4618]