I new Vladimir Spinsin the director of the Moscow zoo and I wrote to him and I said, “Do you have any Siberian polecats?” In collection we need some. I wanted to send them to Wyoming for the people of Wyoming for some experience with animals that may be easier to breed than the black footed ferrets are. He said no I can’t help you. I don’t have any in our collection. Well, I don’t know if it was one month or three months or six months later I got a call from New York saying there was a package at the airport for you and the airport there were six Siberian polecats from Vladimir Stinsin. He found some animals and rounded them up for us and that was the first experience with breeding anything was with polecats. That made them feel more comfortable for doing the same with the ferrets. And designing, I made a good facility and they went from there and it worked.
