I don't have experience with Petco in particular, but I do know about one of the big farms. Our shelter, the Pennsylvania Ferret Rescue Association, has an agreement with Path Valley Farms to take in any ferrets that would normally be returned to them. Path Valley apparently works with other shelters (Fran Wiles name was mentioned to me), too. Basically, if the petstore has a *problem* ferret (biting, deaf, etc.) what they can do is call Path Valley and get a credit for that animal. Then they contact any of our shelter branches and we pick up the ferret from the petstore. Path Valley normally has the ferret shipped back to them and one of the employees takes it home for a pet. Path Valley states that they do not destroy the returned ferrets. Many of the pet stores that carry Path Valley ferrets don't know that they can do this. You can contact Path Valley (1-800-FERRET1) to find out what to do in your area. I don't know about Marshall Farms, Triple F, Hagan or any other farms. Does anyone else know for sure what happens to their returned ferrets? Mary and the gang of 20.... Mary McCarty-Houser Pennsylvania Ferret Rescue Association Director, Centre County Branch http://www.ferretrescue.com [Posted in FML issue 2393]