Nan wrote: >John McCain has a ferret More accurately, someone in John McCain's family has a ferret. I sure haven't seen any photos of him with the ferret let alone them cuddling; in fact, I can't recall personally seeing pictures of him with any pets. Ferrets have been in the White House before, with Caroline Livinia Harrison, first lady of Benjamin Harrison.. 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 6041]