I think what she means by "genetic defect is eliminated" is: M&P doesn't breed any lines that develop a negative genetic issue, aka early cancer, lymphoma, etc., and they track the kits. (Yes, "angora" as a whole could be construed as a negative genetic issue depending on your perspective, for the sake of general understanding, let's assume that angora-ism is an ok genetic trait.) In a sense.. any ferret with an obviously harmful genetic trait is not bred and therefor, those visible traits are eliminated, regardless of how beautiful, well-built, etc., the ferret is. Those ferrets are altered immediately and allowed to live out their lives as pets. Here's an example: My Rubik was from a litter where the hob suddenly developed Juvenile Lymphoma out of the blue at 1+ year of age and died. M&P called me and the others who got a kit from that litter and made sure all of the kits were altered and not bred. I was altering Rubik anyway so it didn't matter, but M&P wanted to be sure that we knew about it and that those bloodlines were not passed on. We were also informed of the lymphoma and everything was disclosed. M&P can speak for itself, but I noticed things getting technical and decided to try to decode things. Hope nobody minds. Angora-ism.. I kind of like that word. Laura [Posted in FML 5724]