I have a personal experience to add to the discussion of Carolina Ferrets selling to pet stores. I took in two ferrets from a pet store in southern Oregon that purchased them from Carolina Ferrets because the manager wanted to do the right thing and not get ferrets to sell in the store from any of the "ferret farms". The ferrets were 8 months old and behaved as if they had never been handled, they were terrible biters. The pet store owner could not handle them and didn't want to send them back, so turned them over to Cascade Ferret Network. They are a beautiful healthy pair of ferrets, but are still biters even after having been in our best biter rehab foster home for years. Carolina Ferrets may not sell in large numbers to pet stores, but these ferrets were definitely sold to a pet store to be resold. Elayne Barclay Cascade Ferret Network [Posted in FML issue 5039]