Lynn: I'm sorry to hear that the ferrets are back in shavings at the Yorkdale store. The last time I was there, they had about 8 babies in a large, rectangular aquarium (sort of off to the right, in front of the display area for large bird cages), and they were clean, in cloth (cotton?) bedding. The octagonal aquariums were full of rabbits. We do speak to one of the staff (short, plus-sized, early 20's, long black straight hair) regularly. She knows us and doesn't mind if we spend a while playing with the ferrets. Apparently, when the store gets a shipment of ferrets, she sorts them out and keeps the "best" (nicest, friendliest) ones and sends the others out to the other stores in the area. Anyways, I though they were doing better with their ferrets. I'll speak to them again about it next time I'm there. I hope anyone else on the FML in the Toronto area will, too. Stan, Terrie & Jen, with Mookie, Psycho, Cecil & Cocoa in Toronto [Posted in FML issue 1487]