Several Comments: Great ferret lady, Linda Iroff, takes the time to continue to educate the petstores, wonderful ideas, and for those who just out of curiosity drop in the stores to see what they have may want to use a couple of her hints, they are friendly and may get it going for more responsible pet sales. One of the greatest things I could think of would be to post the FML address for customers to learn more how to take care of ferrets and for help. For the problem with odors. I am extremely sensitive to odors and fear for Ajax to come because he is going to stay a boy as long as I can tolerate it because I hear of all the benefits it does him (wouldn't know this but through FML). I quit bathing my girls except when they do get into something (an overturned coke that "they" feel they can wipe up on their own), and that is usually a wet washrag. I also found that IAMS kitten food changed the smell of their stools as well as BO but now they are on Totally Ferret and the odor is returning a little but for health benefits will stay on it. I also have two air purifiers - hadn't been giving them much credit but now figure I should - they are on low night and day (den is 20x24). I removed the carpet and have room side rugs over vinyl (which has been more fun watching them try to run on vinyl and they still get to rub their bodies on rugs when they wake up) I have to clean poop stations once a day and I never fail to ask a visitor to be candid, does it stink. So far I have had no one say it did, UPS guy acted like I was trying to lure him in but I just wanted his opinion, I was not lonely. Questions on the names my pets have: I started out with foods. I had Sugar & Honey (horses, one white, one sorrel - guess which has which name) and I still have them. I still have the cats, cookie, Crackers, Muffin, lost Taffy. For the dogs, I had 4 Dachshunds, Peanuts, Puddin, Peaches & Pumpkin. My granddaughter got this started when I got custody of her and gave her her first dog Comet, the Golden Retriever. I lost all my Dachshunds and then wanted a dog of my own - Great Dane DRano, who gets along with the ferrets beautifully, then you heard me mention the chawawa Brillo, me and him are a personality clash. I did not intend to get all these ferrets but .....and thus the cleaning rage goes on. I am expecting two new ones, will check personalities before the naming - some are boy names, some girls - Ajax, tough, boyish, Ammonia, stinky but active, Easy Off, the easiest sweetest ferret this side of Heaven, Cascade, beautiful but aloft. We will see. Thanks again to the FML, it has been a service to ferret owners and those who want to "take up the habit". And I didn't think "I" needed a computer, what would I ever use it for, silly me. Millie & her cleaning crew Easy Off: the most perfect ferret in the whole wide world Ammonia: here Easy Off, stand on this shelf, now put your paws up here on this crystal vase and give a little push like this. Ough Oh! Cascade: the observer. I'm gonna play in the potty box and if I can find some raw garlic, I'm gonna eat it, then see if she wants to kiss Ajax: yet to come. What, Mama, my teeth aren't that big, its not time to go, please tell me it isn't time yet, they aren't ready for me. [Posted in FML issue 2412]