I purchased and paid for a ferret kit yesterday only to have the grandson snitch to the old man that I didn't want to feed the nutritionally poor KAYTEE food (I feed my ferrets a carnivore specific diet) nor inject the kit with a DOG vaccination (the proper Merial Fervac is back on the market and available where I live).
the birthdates of the ferrets were UNKNOWN, the breeder of the ferrets was UNKNOWN ("I just pick them up at the airport was the answer to the question) and there was ZERO paperwork available for them, including supposed previous vaccinations. one of the kits that was sold had no hair on its tail, the older kit had feces caked on its hind end and the kits the old man had at the house had feces caked around their anus' (a good indicator of diarrhea, maybe that poor diet perhaps). the 3 ferret kits in the shop and the 2 kits the old man had at his home were the same age according to the grandson, however their size difference was quite contradictory.
the old mans property "the ferret farm" is a hoarded mess of junk piled up everywhere except for the beaten path between the dilapidated houses. the peacocks and poultry live amongst squalor. the flies were immeasurable in number. my mother had to wait in the car, it was too much for her.
the old man held baby ferrets in one hand, with a cigarette in the other, and they were reacting to the smoke while the old man spouted off how I don't know how to care for ferrets properly. chatting with him, he demonstrated ZERO animal husbandry knowledge. he couldn't tell me the protein content of the Kaytee food he so adamantly endorses, nor had he heard of what I feed. he spews off how feeding the wrong food causes cancer, yet doesn't know ferrets are carnivores that should not be fed carbs, fruit, veggies, grains etc, which his Kaytee food is laden with. he frowned on the fact that my ferrets have free access in and out of their cage into their X-pen (ferrets should not be always caged as he thinks). he thinks I am a poor ferret owner, yet he pulled 2 kits from his hoarded house, and sold me one of them.
fast forward 30 minutes and ferret is purchased and paid for. later in the afternoon when I arrive to pick him up, the old man is sitting in his junkyard with his wife, and starts insulting me. the man with no sense living amongst junk thinks an experienced ferret owner isn't good enough to buy from him. pot meet kettle. another trip to the store for a refund.
I suspect that ferret was sold to someone else who was dumb enough to buy the "package" they sell, which includes a tiny wire cage, that "nutritionally complete" Kaytee ferret food and those DOG distemper vaccinations. a couple from CA was there looking at them when I was at the store to pay for mine.
this establishment is a joke, and this family's gene pool needs a filter. read more