Petsmart had a conference call with one of our members. THey flat said they did not have enough complaints to ignore the hugh demand for ferrets. We told of the over load on ferret shelters - they did not believe this. We also threatened that the ferret community would boycott their stores, would buy from their competitor Petco - and many have other animals they shop for supplies for (I alone have 3 Great Danes I use their store food but can switch). THis made them no nevermind. For comments of Petco selling ferrets - we already are to the brim of throw away ferrets, we don't need another store and their throwaways. They need more letter, hard copy letters and some threats to take all of our business away. Sure they can drag in a few impulse buyers, some may dump their ferrets, others get to be good ferret owners and those good ferret owners in time will search us out and when we go into the recommendations, they will listen too. If we want to stop this, we have got to get active EACH AND EVERY LETTER COUNTS. Write those letters, make those calls, email thier contacts (and I might add, we have been having educational tables at several of their stores for 2 years, we have no waiting period, havent registered with them - we don't adopt from the store so they gave us a supply of adoption papers to use when we do adopt so they get credit - they want our support and to do what they want to do anyway. Millie and her Exploding Drinking it up Cleaningcrew Ferret Lovers Club of Texas [Posted in FML issue 4702]