Had a shelf in a pantry closet topple.  Ouch, falling cans hurt and
startle.  Yes, I was wimp and yelled.  Guess what?  Ashling came to my
defense, tail all a-fluff and ferret-barking wildly at the bad thing in
there which bruised her mom.  "I'll save you, Mommy!"
 
There are starting to be more compounding pharmacies.  Some ship.  One we
use ships Fed Ex, or uses messenger service locally.  Bellvideire (sp) here
in N.J.  1-800-322-1302.  MANY areas have compounding pharmacies locally,
so call around and ask.  If there's not another reason to not do so,
though, 6 years old is certainly not too old for surgery.
 
Two people in relation to ADV studies:
>>A major factor in distributing a grant will be the researchers desire
>>to work with previously infected animals rather than infecting new ones.
>
>Is this politics?  Or science?  Unfortuantely to be terribly meaningful
>science has to over ride politics.
 
Actually, if they prefer to donate to projects which don't use test animals
they can.  There are current ones which fit that criteria, using samples
from known infected pet animals.  So many aspects of the disease, need the
be understood that some can give preferentially to those projects and
others to studies in general.  That info has appeared in the FML.  Just as
long as it's not used as an excuse to sit on one's wallet, it doesn't
create problems.  Sadly, for some it is just an excuse to not give, though,
so I hope they already went the extra mile.
 
Again two:
>>I have noticed that there are a great many shows coming up in the next
>>few months.  I am BEGGING you all to SPECIFICALLY ask what sanitation
>>methods will be used.
>
>In this case it looks like politics.  You are apparently trying to do the
>same blame games that have always been done with shows done by rival
>groups.
 
Disagree.  Think that it makes sense for people to always take disease
transmission and the assortment of precautions into account in relation
to gatherings.
 
Bill and Diane wrote:
>Those are the legal requirements.  But there is something else.  A suit
>would not be filed by a sane person if there is no chance of actually
>collecting any awarded compensation.
 
Well, either I am insane or just different.  Take your pick.  When a
certain (still existing) on-line ferret newsletter run by a couple put up
posts THEY had written, complete with loads of blatantly incorrect info,
attaching MY NAME to these as "author" even though I had squat to do with
them and didn't even know such articles were coming out, then felt that
they could get away with it because they don't have much money (hence no
one would sue) I was COMPLETELY willing to have our state get some free
labor instead as the punishment.  Of course, they would have still had to
cover their living and transport costs.  I figured that whatever public
services they were told to do would help someone, and maybe they'd learn
a lesson.  They did not press it to the point where I had to continue the
suit once they learned that I wasn't in it for personal profit but as a
matter of honor after having been libeled.  Money is certainly a necessity
but it's far from a be-all-end-all.  It's not money or lack of it which
makes some people at either end of the scale so irresponsible or obnoxious,
and money would not help heal a wound to honor.  Sweat, though, is pretty
danged good for that!  Learning and changed behavior are even better.
 
Poor Jumpstart just had nightmare, crying with bottle brush tail in his
sleep.  Picked him up without waking him and cuddled, speaking to him
softly about how good he is; crying stopped, tail went down, he slowly
awakened and gave me loving snuggles.
 
Anne wrote this very TRUE thing that bears repeating:
>The vets doing the shots at clinics give a cursory once over at best,
>and most do not know the first thing about ferret health.  It is not an
>acceptable substitute for a thorough exam.
 
Jaime, Actually, MF has done a LOT, and they have already been success in
one lawsuit.  The CA F&G was posting, saying, and even handing out fliers
that ferrets have a high chance of being rabid, can't be vaccinated, and
similar stuff.  MF brought suit against them with experts on rabies and
vaccines brought to court from across the nation at MF's expense, from what
I have read.  They are tackling some other aspects of CA F&G's stance that
way, too.  In fact, for free I provided MF with a huge pile of statements
from public health vets across the nation when the Compendium was being
revised to help in such suits and be used in that one; also provided a
number of other helpful places trying to change laws.  That was a few years
ago when I compiled such things for the Morris Animal Foundation for free.
[Posted in FML issue 3188]