Here is what I hope to be a calm an intellegent letter requesting Party of Five rectify what they have done. This is what I sent to the "Ask Fox" email address. I will also be sending a copy via snail mail to the Party of Five address listed previously. Dear Sir/Madam, I'm sure it has been called to your attention that the depiction in the "Party of Five" 12/9 episode of pet ferrets being feral and predatory was incorrect. It is my intention in this letter to encourage you not to ignore this mistake. As you well know the television, being part of the media, is a powerful force in society. Misinformation of this type broadcast to the general public who are not well educated in the care and behavior of pet ferrets will compound and facilitate the spread of improper assumptions and/or care of pet ferrets. As you have probably been told, ferrets are not capable of caring for themselves in the wild. Just as you would not turn a pet dog into the streets, a ferret would fair ten fold worse. If you choose not to acknowledge the enormous affect your programming can have in your millions of viewers, you may, in fact, be relegating innocent animals to torture and horrible death. I humbly beseech you to issue a retraction and try to undo damage that may have already been done. I think you will find admitting a mistake will earn you respect and reclaim viewers that I can assure you have lost do to this incident. Thank you for your time, Angela D. Young North Carolina State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Zoology Department 919-(work phone) 919-(home phone) *** I wanted to let them know it was unacceptable to let it go and that they will and have lost viewers over this, but in a subtle, unimposing manner. I hope I succeeded. Angie and Duchees (six pound terror MinPin puppy) Chewie (5 pound manly monster ferret), Roxanne (dainty and sick but non-the-less fiesty little girl), Adrienne (female monster weighing in at 3 pounds). [Posted in FML issue 2521]