In addition to the number of cases of various recently in the news in the Mid-atlantic region: http://www.kxmc.com/News/139736.asp >Jun 30 2007 1:03PM >BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) A dog in Yellowstone County died from rabies this >week [,]... the second reported case of the disease in a Montana dog >in two weeks. > >A rabid dog in wheatland County was euthanized... > >Both counties are now under 60-day rabies quarantines, meaning dogs, >cats and ferrets that have not been vaccinated against rabies cannot >leave those counties... These are the first dog cases there since 2001. I have noticed a number of free community rabies clinics now vaccinate ferrets as well as cats and dogs, but i doubt they take reaction protections. For example: <http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070630/NEWS03/706300344/1019/NEWS03> Sukie (not a vet) Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html [Posted in FML 5655]