Please subscribe me to the FML . Hi, My name is Dale Boone. I've been a longtime reader of FML. (Roger Mc used to forward copies to me until I started downloading them from Ferret Forum's Database. I recently moved back to Chicago and found an e-mail outlet for internet. I have four critters. Anubis - (Nubie) Albino Female Alpha - Black Sable Male Charm - Sable Female Quark - Sterling Silver Male Recently, on a trip back from Gurnee Mills (a shopping center north of Chicago) I stopped in a PetZazz store to pick up some food for my clan and there was a booth set up by one of the local ferret shelters. They had information on ferrets, their organization and had about a half dozen or so ferrets there. I thought it was just to show people what they looked like and give them a chance to handle one until another customer actually adopted one right there in the store. Pretty convenient, I thought, except that the re was virtually no screening of the adopter. Just fill out the form and write a check. I thought there should have been more, but I didn't say anything, just picked up some literature and left. In case you're wondering, I do not yet belong to a ferret association, but I am joining one as soon as NASA send me my check. DB [Posted in FML issue 0810]