I don't usually jump in on this kind of dicussion, but I feel that I should ad my 2 cnts worth. When I first got ferrets, I was very uneducated about them. I took mine every where with me. They never got sick and what little education I had to offer was given out. Things like "No it's not a rat." and " No I didn't catch it, it's not a wild animal.". When people are exposed to germs they and we are every day, they are more liikely to build an imunity. If a person isn't exposed, then when they do go out they have no imunity. When my ferrets got ECE it was because I brought it home with me, they hadn't been out in months. If a child is going to tell a parent that they want a ferret, that could happen because they saw a ferret on "Kindergarden Cop". A person who's kids wanted a ferret called me last spring because I was the only person she knew who had ferrets. She called before they got ferrets to get as much information a possible first. After they got ferrets she called again because the family was going on vacation and wanted know where I left my ferrets. She wanted to know that hers would be safe while she was gone. It's hard to educate some one on some thing that they can't see. I learned a lot about the Revolutionary War when I was in school, but remember very little about it. Polly, Squirt, and Splash [Posted in FML issue 2933]