Personally a "Nationwide shortage of distemper vaccine?" is not that much of a problem to me as I have not vaccinated any of my since they had their puppy vaccinations and as for my ferrets none of my present ferrets have been vaccinated. Come to that I have not used any sort of distemper vaccine since 1980's and none of my animals have caught distemper. The man with a new idea is a crank until other take it up Mark Twain http://groups.yahoo.com/group/intact-ferrets/ http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/house-ferrets http://www.geocities.com/houseferrets13uk/First_Page-Index.html Come see some of my hobs and jills http://www.geocities.com/houseferrets13uk/Some_of_my_jills.html Some of our fund-raising events http://www.geocities.com/houseferrets13uk/Show.html [Posted in FML issue 5157]