>I ask them [local SPCA] if they got ferrets in very often.  They said not
>really but when they did they couldn't adopt them out b/c they couldn't
>get a rabies shot!
 
Yes, exact same reasoning from my local SPCA.  No amount of literature or
references helped, including a copy of South Carolina state law requiring
rabies vaccination of ferrets before sale, the Department of Health and
Environmental Control policy on ferret bites in which current proof of
vaccination is adequate to mandate a quarantine vs a kill and test, and
reference to their own copy of the Compendium of Animal Rabies Control,
2000.  They cite their vet as the source of their info, but they are lying
because I found out who their vet is (they wouldn't tell me) and their
vet spoke to them and referred them to their own copy of the Compendium
of Animal Rabies Control, 2000.  Their policy remains unchanged and not
knowing I spoke to the vet, they still cite the vet as the source of their
disinformation.  My local SPCA is most certainly operating on a hidden
agenda.
 
Jim H
[Posted in FML issue 3492]