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"Bob Shimbo" <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 24 May 1991 19:46:51 -0400
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Baron:
Re places where ferrets are illegal:
California put them under a permit system in 1935 because gun hunters
complained that ferreters were taking too many of "their" rabbits.  In
1986 at the urging of Hal Cribbs, California fish and game decided not
to issue any more permits.
Massachusetts and Michigan both have bills pending in their state
legislatures that would allow gibs and sprites (spayed hobs and jills
respectively) to be owned as pets, but it is possible by now that both
may sit in the legislature without going anywhere over the summer.
Rhode Island allows ferrets only if you can prove they have been
neutered, vaccinated for feline distemper (which they don't get anyway,
although -canine- distemper is virtually 100% fatal), and an affidavit
that you do not have children 2 years old or younger in your household.
New Hampshire bans ferrets but will probably legalize if massachusetts
does so.
Utah banned ferrets at the urging of the California Dept of Fish and
game, which claims to be "in the forefront of the move to ban ferrets
nationwide," in 1989.  Without telling anyone...
Hawaii bans ferrets for fear of the kind of feral populations that
grew in New Zealand, even though the NZ animals are probably polecats
and not ferrets at all.  In many places, the terms are used interchange-
ably, as are "dolphin" and "porpoise" in the US.
Ferrets are legal in all other states, but be advised that there are
individual cities and counties within various states which ban ferrets.
For the record, the United States Department of Agriculture considers
ferrets a "non-dangerous, pet type animal." (Title 9, etc...)
 
Now, if you really want to be appalled, I could tell you -why-
California is so up in arms about ferrets.....
 
-Fa
                                                                          
[Posted in FML 0139]
                                                                          

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