Given how many people provide poultry and such: <http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentidonly=true&contentid=2011/08/0379.xml> We always keep bottled water since any flooding regionally badly affects our water, and due to my upbringing we also have pots and buckets of water gathered before the storm for flushing and cleaning during a hurricane or nor'easter. It always pays in hurricane to have a list of vets in other communities available in case you have to travel due to flooding or home damage, or in case a vet hospital is damaged. Use resources such as : http://ferrethealth.org/vets/ which can be linked to from the FHL Files section http://supportourshelters.org/ and http://www.ferretuniverse.com/vets/vetlist.asp More tips can be found in the FHL and FML Archives, the addies for which appear in my sig lines. 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 7164]