First- I am highly annoyed to hear Stephanie begging for money again. I have offered her help here in Colorado repeatedly, with no response from her at all. I have no money to give to her- but have offered her the use of my store as a venue for adopting out some of her ferrets, and have offered to take some of her animals in, and help her figure out what to do. I HAVE made it clear to her I have no money to give her, and so she does not respond to me. While I understand she wishes to keep everything the way it is- according to her posts this just will not be possible- I would think she would take whatever help is being offered, or at least tell me "no thanks". All of this was offered way before Christmas, and now she says she doesn't want to have to put all these ferrets down...... So what, she will if people won't give her money? It costs money to euthanize ferrets. Flame me if you will, but I have issues with people doing things like this. I hear every day- "I don't want to have to put him down, but if you don't take him I will". There are plenty of people here who would be happy to help- they just are not going to give her the money she wants. Second- I do work at Petco. While I too, find this store's selling of ferrets appalling- I do my best to make sure the babies going out of my store have the best chance they can- I socialize them, groom them, care for them, make sure their enclosure is spotless, exercise them, and love them. I also offer ferret education classes free of charge to anyone who would like to come and am available for anything ferret related. This means I am in the store 7 days a week.It also means I get the sick and biting ones, and the ones that are dumped to bring home.This is the only way I can make a difference in Petco's commercialization of these awesome creatures. We do feed them 2 times a day- refills and change wet food.They have food available 24 hours- they are checked. This is not ideal- there is no ideal when you are talking about slavery of precious souls. It shreds my heart to sell any one of my babies- I don't get the option- all I get to do is to try to get the best homes and weed out the worst. [Posted in FML issue 5108]