I'm just coming in on the middle of this topic - but had a little input. I understand your taking offense because of the situation that you say you have in your home - where smoking is done well away from the ferrets - but at the same time understand that as a shelter that adopts ferrets, you have a policy or you don't - it's hard to have a policy that allows for a great deal of subjectivity as you get accused of descrimination. Whether it's an issue of ferrets exposed to 2nd hand smoke or adopting to families with very young children - it's a hard call and all I can say is that in the end, in each situation, the shelter operator simply has to do what they believe is in the best interest of the ferret. [Posted in FML issue 5027]