>From: Edward Lipinski <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Marshall Farms and the American Ferret Ass'n...coconspirators? > Likewise, the American Ferret Association, in their understandable, but > notoriously flawed philosophy of required neutering and spaying, are > essentially coconspirators in the devolution, the de-domestication of the > ferret. Funny. I am an AFA member & I have never been asked to alter my ferrets. It is not stated in their membership guidelines that altering is required. I sell my kits with alter contracts - AFA has never suggested they had a problem with that one way or another. I know several breeders belonging to the AFA - many judges - that do the same. It has never been written in any show packet, rule book, or exhibitor guidelines (at least that I have seen) that all ferrets must be altered - or the very least that all ferrets being sold must be altered. They just regulate age & shot requirements. [Posted in FML issue 2377]