http://www.send2press.com/newswire/2010-07-0727-003.shtml Small excerpt: >Schwarzenegger said: "I love ferrets. I co-starred with a ferret in >Kindergarten Cop. However, this bill is too bureaucratic and it >legalizes ferrets prior to conducting an environmental impact report." > >The requested Environmental Impact Report (EIR) is nearly complete, >and the evidence clear. Leading SSU researcher, G. O. Graening PhD, >reports: "None of the questionnaires, [which were sent to] every >wildlife agency, health department, and agricultural department in >the 50 U.S. states and Canadian Provinces, received to date have >documented the establishment of any feral breeding populations, or >negative interactions with wildlife, or significant impacts on human >health or safety." "Graening, G.O." appears to be at the CA State University of Sacramento: http://www.csus.edu/bios/FacStaff.html as an adjunct professor in "Conservation biology, Subterranean biodiversity, and Groundwater ecology" Publications list: http://naturalinvestigations.com/pubs.htm 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/ http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html all ferret topics: http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html "All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow." (2010, Steve Crandall) [Posted in FML 6773]