Hey Ya'll! I think this pet store debate is getting ut of hand! People are generalizing things that are impossible to generalize! There is no way for ONE person to examine every single pet store in the WORLD! There are some really wonderful pet stores out there, and then there are some really terrible ones out there! People are going to be jerks and be in the business for the money and then some people will be in it for the animals! People in it for the money usually do not run a good store! People in it for the animals usually have a clean store and workers who know what they are talkin about! Some people have made some wonderful points like bigger stores who don't carry live-stock may not know what the prober environment is for a certain animal because they don't have the actual animals there! Someone else said that the pet store is what introduces most of us to ferrets! If you think about it how many people wander into pet stores to browse! We get them all the time and I can not tell you how many times I have showed people ferrets and told them about what great pets they make and people are amazed! Half the people I show ferrets to have never seen one close up! Talk about education!!!! The best place to educate the public is in public!!!!!!! There are ALWAYS 2 sides to every story! By the way my name is Monica not Thomas! Monica and the Trilogy! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am only laughing on the outside, my smile is just skin deep! If you could see inside, I'm really crying, you might join me for a weep! Batman 1989 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Moderator's note: The pet shop posts gotta be directly related to ferrets. General pet shop posts having nothing to do with our favorite furry fuzzbean ferret friends won't be posted. BIG] [Posted in FML issue 1835]