Excerpts from mail: 5-May-93 Ferret List Issue 470 by Ferret Mailing List@ferr > talking about. Anyhow the Marshall Farms ferrets I have been seeing > lately have been looking worse and worse. I was just in the PetLand at Parkway Center Mall in Greentree (just outside Pittsburgh, PA) and they had a new crop of ferrets. They were the healthiest, fiestiest little creatures (huge!) I've seen in a while. I'm about 90% sure they only buy from Marshall Farms, so perhaps some of the ill health of those ferrets in your area are from lack of proper care? I didn't check for double incisors on all the babies, but the two I played with didn't have them. Were the ferrets directly in the wood chips or were they under the ferret cage? These ferrets had wood chips under the cage -- not a lot, the ferrets didn't touch them, and they were not cedar but unscented. It surprised me because there are people working there who are very active in the ferret world. --Barb-- [According to one person we know who has ben, and possibly still is, an employee at a petshop, much of the difficulties you see in small animals at petshops is the shop's fault.] [Posted in FML issue 0471]