Okay, first I would like to say that I've looked at all the pelts, skull, and other ferret like taxidermy products on ebay. I have nothing against them, yea i am not a fan of most taxidermy, and i felt that one of the ferret pelts wasn't done very well, but I still don't have anything against them. Especially the skull. All they made me think of were old fashion styles and a good biology class. The mink stole might end up with a collector who strives to keep examples of how fashion used to be. That skull and pelt might just end up in some biology class.Which I think would be very cool. Frankly, I wouldn't mind having a couple skulls to see the difference between the animals. Okay, that might not be your thing. That's fine. But I don't think it's fine when a lot of people throw a hissy fit about ferret parts on ebay. Everytime one comes up a lot of people write Ebay and the seller to get it removed, yet do you do that when a rabbit pelt comes up? How about a bird skull? Do you write to ebay to have them remove the auction for the turtle shell? How about for the fisher, racoon, lizard, or even HUMAN skulls that come up? (yes there are Human skulls on ebay!) Do a search on "Real Skulls" and there's pages of them! Even a cat! There's also pages of pelts, everything from mink to cayote to mice. Anything you can think of. Alot of the stuff is scientific, medical, or native american. I haven't heard anyone throwing fits over any other animals. Yes i realize this is a ferret list, yet no one has said. I can't believe ebay allows the sale of animal pelts/skulls. I write to all the sellers of all pelts. here's a ferret pelt that everyone else might think is horrible! But, it's not right to protest the sale of a ferret skull and not a mink skull, fox skull, dog skull, etc. and it's not right to write to the sellers and demand they remove their product (you know they actually lose the money they paid to post the auction.. i think) If you don't believe it's right to sell skulls on ebay, write to ebay and tell them so, but don't protest any one skull imparticular, unless it says something like "this animal was violently killed for it's skull" then by all means go ahead and bombard the place. But these skulls are skulls that will probably end up in someone science classroom! Has anyone here ever taken a bio class or any class where you studied skeletons or skulls or pelts? Where do you think the teacher got that stuff? I bet plenty of teachers get them off ebay! What about nature centers who teach about different animals? I work personally with a nature center, and I know most if not all of their animal part came from the game commission, but I'm sure there's plenty of places out there that buy their skulls and what knot. Ebay is a wonderful resource for all people, taxadermists and scientists included. Skulls and pelts etc. belong on ebay. If you don't like ferret parts imparticular, exclude them from your search. (go into advance search and exclude the words "skull" and "pelt") If you don't believe that selling any skulls is right then write to ebay, don't single one thing out. The fact that you find one animal part more disturbing than another because it's your favorite animal or you had one as a pet doesn't mean that selling that one particular animal part is wrong. If you honestly don't think that ANY animal part should be sold then go ahead and write, but if it's just ferrets, that's not something that should dictate the way things are sold on ebay. It's like eating meat, if you don't like a particular kind of meat, don't eat it. If you think eating ALL meat is wrong, become a veggitarian and promote your cause. You wouldn't try to get one particular kind of meat taken off the market because you didn't like the taste, would you? Now, if the meat you didn't like was, say, veal that was cruelly raised then yes you would try to take it off the market, but take the analogy to ebay.... you don't like ferret parts.... but yet you don't mind other animal parts, sounds like not liking one kind of meat....well.. the ferret part is like veal you say.. where's the proof? what proof do you have that the ferret was cruelly killed? none, for all you know the ferret could have died from adrenal, or died in surgery. If you only want the ferret part taken off of ebay because you find it a bit gross, please don't bombard the seller or ebay with letters. But that's just my two cents. If anyone agrees, okay. If you disagree, that's your oppinon. I don't want to fight about it. Have a wonderfully dooky day!! - Jules [Posted in FML issue 4756]