to Selena Simonetti: The only info I have on shipping ferrets is what I've heard from others - I got a call from someone in the Niagara Falls area who had a ferret shipped from New Jersey, and it cost $75.00 plus what she paid for the ferret. (Since this was a farm ferret, she could just as easily have gone to a pet store locally and saved herself the shipping charges). As far as feeding ferrets 2 meals a day.....ferrets, IMO, should be free-fed. In other words, keep those bowls filled all the time. Ferrets have a very high metabolism and it takes only about 3 hours for food to get from mouth to butt. Because of their prepensity for low blood sugar, I think it's risky to feed them twice a day without access to food the rest of the time. My suggestion would be to keep dry food in their bowls at all times, and you can supplement with a bit of canned food or baby food if you like. Remember, canned food is more water than anything else. You might want to use baby food instead - if you get them used to baby food when they are healthy - and if they see the baby food as an occasional treat - when they become sick, you will have a much easier time getting them to eat the baby food than if they are not used to eating it at all. Debbie Riccio WNYFLFA Western New York and Finger Lakes Ferret Association Rochester, NY [Posted in FML issue 1467]