I finally have some time on my hands to do a little project I've been wanting to do for two years now. I am in the process of making a little movie for my YouTube account about Zee and how he came in starved and dying younger than 7 weeks of age when he was sold as much older and with false documentation. I carefully documented this case with scans of certificates, reciets, video, photos of teeth, video, etc, etc.. so there is no arguing his case. In the vid there is a non stop, non edited piece of film showing the ferret, his teeth, the reciet, birth certificate, tats, and date on the tv. I'm doing this to demonstrate that ferrets are being shipped to pet stores too early here in the states, and that most breeders are doing this and even lying about their ages to make the sale of "cute kits" in competing against each other. I'd like to have just more than one case in my movie. Would anyone have any photos (or vids) of a baby ferret that came in too young and/or sick to a pet store? Alicia you supplied us with awesome shots of an extreme case. I still have those on Shutterfly I believe. Can I use those? And if so, can I please have some facts. I want to make something VERY very clear. Alright? This has nothing to do with targeting any specific breeder or farm whatsoever. In fact it galls me that the case I documented came from the best of the huge scale breeders, Marshall Farms, and that it's the only place depicted in video. Path Valley is even worse with their practices, but I don't have documentation of that to use in the film. Other large commercial breeders are even far worse than these two. I will make clear in the movie that the origin of the ferret has nothing to do with the point of the movie. The point of the movie is that we need animal protection laws in this country that prevent baby ferrets from being weaned, operated on, vaccinated and shipped to pet stores too early. The only good of the fact that this particluar case is a MF baby is that demonstrates that even the best engages in this practice if only occassionally, and actually must to compete with others who sell even tinier kits. It speaks volumes that a higher quality place that gives their animals good care and takes precautions still cannot prevent all the harm that comes to a baby when it's taken too early under the best of circumstances. There is also no way for someone to say there was a mix up with ferrets in transport or that someone substituted some other ferret and lied calling it a MF when it has ear tats. Okay, so, please if anyone has photos ....anything that might help, it would turn this from a little interesting personal movie to something that is more powerful. Thanks, Wolfy ps, still no replies as to where I can possibly load the 17 minute Symposium movie that has music on it so you guys can all see it. [Moderator's note: In my opinion the video is WAY too large. I'm sure it can be compressed to a more reasonable size, but then there's the problem of the music being, umm, "borrowed". Personally, I wouldn't host it under those circumstances and I imagine many other places wouldn't either, but you can always zip it and put it on a torrent based file sharing service. BIG] [Posted in FML 6838]