Suki - thank you for saying the below, I was thinking the exact same thing. Additionally I think so many people get caught up in the initial excitement and its all about them (I want another one, I would never give them up, if they weren't sold in pet stores I would never have gotten one or three or five or seven). It pays to slow down and think both about the future and the ferrets. Again we are seeing posts from people who went out and got a PILE of ferrets, instead of starting with one to three at the most for a few years, but now they are unhappy with having so many. Some individuals just go and get more and more and more till they can't cope with the medical costs, or can't deal with the potty accidents, or whatever. Then they scream about the ferrets and want to unload the lot of them -- as if it were all the fault of the ferrets. Hey, folks, guess what? The goof wasn't the ferrets' it was YOUR'S. Yesterday's posted comments about potty training should be well taken! I got a call just yesterday from a man trying to unload a ferret they had bought for their 8 year old daughter. He was a belligerant man, made more so I think by the fact that he'd been all over town trying to GIVE the ferret back to any pet store after the original pet store refused to take it back (even for free). I gave him the number of a shelter and he bitched at me for not taking it myself, threatened to just let it go, the whole bit. One if his biggest outbursts centered around "and the pet store will tell you anything like their easy to potty train". I would like to rip that out of every ferret book ever written. When you say that people think of cats. Its nothing like cats and is no where near as easy. When people take a ferret home thinking that and there are accidents - they cage the ferret - a lot. Ferrets just aren't for everyone and shouldn't be marketed like they are. Mary, Giesela, Boris and Booker too [Posted in FML issue 2880]