Selected articles from the Oct/Nov issue of the Independent Voice are
now up on the Web, including:
 
--informative articles about the New Zealand feral ferrets;
--a sobering commentary on the crisis in the ferret shelter network;
--a provocative analysis of the data on Vitamin A toxicity in ferrets.
http://www.acmeferret/com/voice
 
On the LIFE site, the on-line version of the second edition of the Ferret
First Aid handbook prepared by Ann Davis & Dr. Jean Wardell DVM can be
downloaded.  This valuable reference source is also being provided free of
charge to anyone who wants it for the cost of a SASE & the 55 cents postage
required to send it through the mails.  The first edition was sent out to
hundreds of veterinarians, humane societies and animal controls in
Massachusetts early this year when ferrets were legalized there.
http://www.acmeferret.com/infobank/ffaid.htm
 
Also available for downloading or browsing is a very hefty (250k)
bibliography of "Ferrets as Laboratory Animals" prepared by the USDA in
collaboration with Dr. James Fox of MIT, containing more than 700
bibliographic entries on experiments performed on (and occasionally for the
benefit of) ferrets.  http://www.acmeferret.com/infobank/labdata.htm
 
Finally, the entirety of Jan Lovell's informative posts on the 1995 Georgia
bite case is on the medical/legal information bank site (formerly Rabies and
Bite Information Bank).  http://www.acmeferret.com/infobank/georgia.htm
 
Howard Davis
Independent Voice- http://www.acmeferret.com/voice
LIFE- http://www.acmeferret.com/life
ACME Ferret Co.- http://www.acmeferret.com
ACME- http://www.acmeferret.com
[Posted in FML issue 1742]