On December 20th the FML will reach its 20th anniversary. Chris Lewis, in Canada, who began the FML when the earliest ferret internet people were being harassed stayed only a short amount of the FML's life. During early years Bill Gruber provided the original anonymous option for those who lived in FFZs (which were pretty common back then when Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, (Did IL also ban them back then? I can't recall and am trying to recall states beyond the three Ms.), many counties and many cities banned ferrets. Now there are just a few such locations: California, Hawaii, New York CITY. Washington DC, and some other places. Does St. Paul still ban them? Bill: http://www.skweezeme.net/big.html 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 5807]