Not to be insensitive, but I think that the risk of running into someone with a strong ferret allergy is pretty small, whereas the risk of running into someone with a strong cat allergy is very high. In my "ferreting" experience, I have only even heard of 4 people who had ferret allergies, and on one of those occasions, the people found out it was something else entirely. While many people may choose not to do so, I fully support "smuggling" a ferret for a valid reason, (such as getting it to its vet or saving it from a potentially unsafe situation) and don't think that worrying about peoples' potential or hypothetical allergies would ever factor in to my decision-making process. For what it's worth Melissa [Posted in FML issue 2917]