Beau:  Thanks for Linda Harrah's number.  My wife and I spoke to
her at length today and she put us in touch with some area people
who want to get a club/rescue going.
 
Linda was pleasantly surprised to learn of our mailing list and gave
her okay for me to provide the ferret-list with any interesting info
she I get through her.  So a Cincinnati area ferret club should be
forming soon.
 
Other Stuff Linda Told Us:
 
1)  ferrets are verboten in Franklin County, Ohio. Franklin county is
home of Columbus, Oh (the state capitol) and Ohio State University
(with one of the country's leading Veternary programs).  Apparently
some county health department official has it in for ferrets ans there's
just no resoning with this person.   Imagine attending this Vet school
and not being able to study ferrets because they happen to be
illegal in your one county out of the whole state!!
 
2)  Moorehead College (west virginia ??) has ferrets as part of their
    vet curriculum.
 
3) Now that we have our rabies vaccine, the next step is to get research
done on a quarentine period. This is the period the animal must be held to
determine if it is indeed rabid.  Currently, the animals are apparently
just destroyed, with questions being asked later.
 
  The sad part, is that only about $17,000 dollars has been raised over the
years for this purpose.  It is estimated that there are some 6 million
ferrets out there, and if each owner shelled out a measely dollar per ferret
there'd be no problem funding this kind of (IMPORTANT) research.
 
  Linda said that the Llama people have raised over one hundred thousand
dollars for theri cause.  The Lllama people?!? How many llamas have you
met recently?
 
4) Did I mention it was a long conversation? :-)
 
lenny.
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