Special orders just won't cut it for the pet shops or Marshall. They are used to a certain profit - Marshall with the regular outgoing of pet shop ferrets, and Petco with the ferrets being bought by anyone (they don't care if they are bought by bad or uninformed owners). Special orders would require more insight and thought, less money being made from animals and would likely make the whole operation more expensive as a whole for MF, even if the ferrets prices were raised, since less would be bought overall. Marshalls pet ferret division and any other "ferret farm" depend on impusle sales from their partner pet shops in order to achieve the sales and money they are used to. Going back from that would not be in their best interest. I don't know your thoughts on it are so I won't assume you are against this, but I'll continue: IMO banning their sale completely from pet shops is the only way to go. With thousands and thousands in shelters all over the United States, there is no reason why they need to be sold anymore. Some say this would bolster bad breeders, but truth be told, no one who ever really wanted to breed ferrets was ever stopped by the fact that a pet shop sold them. I believe it would have little impact, but I could be wrong. The USA needs to get with the program and ban sales of animals in petshops and rely on adoption to fuel the pet industry, especially taking aim at the mall petshops that have one of each breed of dog on display, usually outrageously expensive and which only cost them $5 to $10 from a puppy mill. Laryssa [Posted in FML 6038]