To All Ferretphiliacs, (If you like them, you are one!)
 
We need your help to organize better public events featuring ferrets and
their frolicsome nature, so that the general public can get a better picture
of the ferret as it carries out its natural and most-times comical antics.
 
Here's what you can do:  list for us all the neat things your ferret does
that could perhaps be demonstrated by your ferret when you coax him(her)to
do his thing.  This could be a list of the things your ferret does as it
interacts with you, children, other ferrets, other animals, with bath
towels, toys, or anything else that comes to mind.
 
We would like to incorporate, somehow, these natural antics of the ferret
into events that would enable us to compare one ferret with another in
performing the same function, both outdoors and inside, and in full view of
the public.
 
Does anyone out there know how to demonstrate simply the ferret's uncanny
sense of smell, hearing, and sight.  What about its ability to swim, run,
crawl, do rollovers (on the ground and also in the air) go into rapid
reverse while seeking out a hole to push his butt into, und so weiter?
 
Your suggestions, no matter how crazy, will be thoughtfully considered,
explored and if possible, incorporated into an event bearing your name at
the next Ferret Olympics out here in Seattle.  (June 28th)
 
By the way, don't forget that the fastest ferret in the world is TOBEY, who
was clocked at 5.63 mph at FerretsNorthWest's New Year's Vet/Info Seminar
Pot-luck Indoor Picnic on Jan 25, '98.  This is a world's record speed for a
ferret over a precisely measured 25-foot course on a gymnasium floor and
clocked at 3.03 sec to 1/100 second.
 
Hope to hear from all of you, you Ferretphiliacs.  Well, Ferretphobes too.
 
        Dum vivimus,vivamus [L.] While we live, let us live.
Edward Lipinski, Frettchenvergnuegen from the Frettchenlustbarkeitsfuehrer !
Frettchenvergnuegen [G.] Joy of Ferrets.  F...fuehrer [G.] Ferret frolics
leader.
[F]erret [E]ndowment for [R]esearch,[R]ehab, [E]ducation & [T]raining
[S]ociety, NorthWest.
[Posted in FML issue 2214]