WILLIAMB@EMAIL
While I cherish your advice immensly here, especially since I live in an FFZ,
I think your advice on rabies vaccinations is poor.
 
As evidenced by the KS Bite Case, even where they are legal, bites can be a
problem and WITHOUT a vaccination, no lawyer has a chance in h**l to help any
animal who gets into trouble this way . For FFZ ferret owners, this is doubly
so. For example, in CA, it has taken years of work for Bill Phillips and CDFA
to stop Fish & Game for killing confiscated animals (now they MUST ship them
out of state). If you cannot prove vaccinations, they suddenly have a great
case for killing them.
 
Sure, it is by no means any GREAT help, as you mention, but isn't SOMETHING
better than NOTHING?
 
Like I said, I do appreciate all your other advice (I am impressed, actually,
I think I even saw someone post a blood test here once). Your service to
people in FFZ who read FML, where good vet care is hard to come by, is
immesurable. BUT, you might want to talk to Bill Phillips at CDFA about the
legal issues involving vaccinations....or talk to someone involved in the KS
bite case (which Mr. Phillips is).
 
[Posted in FML issue 0734]