First of all, best wishes for your upcoming surgery Lisette. Heal fast! Now on to your comment - I totally and completely agree. I tell the kids at school when they say they want a ferret, "does your mom mind if her house is messy" then I go on from there. I have lost sofas, box springs, carpet, kitchen cabinets, pergo flooring, shoes, clothes, etc from the depradation of these little guys. I have lost friends (love me love my ferrets) and alienated family members, vacations are brief at best. Would I do it again, YOU BET! To me ferrets are marvelous, crazy, unpredictable and deeply loving little creatures. I've had them for 20 years. Are they for everybody, No, absolutely not. People do need to be educated. I'm so tired of hearing people say, "I did have a ferret but it was too much trouble, or it bit me, or it wouldn't use the litter box" Research and find this out ahead of time. I just had to let you know how much I agreed with your statement and I too let people know that they do not make good pets for a lot of people. Laurel [Posted in FML 6940]