Gale Putt wrote:
>I will add though that although there is no rabies on Long Island, all dogs
>and cats are required to have a rabies vaccine and I strongly suggest it for
>ferrets traveling through these areas.
 
You're kidding, right?  There's rabies all over the Northeast, and Long Island
is no exception.  Only last year I was at a conference at the Cold Spring
Harbor Laboratory (right next to Huntington), and had to call the authorities
about a severely rabid raccoon in their parking lot.  It was in the final
stages (staring, foaming at the mouth, the works), and they'd been chasing it
for days.  A few years before that, I encountered a rabid woodchuck in a state
park near Rochester.  I trapped it in a garbage can (not the best course of
action, I know, but there were children nearby).  Rabies is on the rise, and
it's not to be taken lightly.
 
[Posted in FML issue 0903]