I guess that someone will always want to question the usuage of words. I will not even deal with such. To those who know me and have seen my breeders, they know they are very important to me. If you don't know me perhaps you should visit my web site before arguing about word usage. Each and every breeder should adopt policies as they see fit. I do not feel that we should be doing a "holier than thou" attitude with other breeders because they do things differently. So I will not go into any kind of defense of my practices. I only wish to know if others feel that asking "newbies" to adopt a shelter ferret as their first ferret would be a good idea. If any breeders wish to discuss this privately please email me at [log in to unmask] Remember I will not argue, but a clean discussion is always interesting. Moonsong Ferrets bred to be the perfect companion http://moonsongferrets.virtualave.net [Posted in FML issue 2803]