Unfortunately, (unless it was lousy) it looks like I've lost my training write-up among the many things I lost with computer problems. Anyway, you need gentleness, consistency, patience, times-out, a medical check to make sure there are no dental or health problems causing pain and resulting in biting and to check for parasites and continue the shot series, plus you need Cheweasels to help ease teething. If you can't find them locally you can always get them from the Ferret Store at 1-888-8FERRET . So, I have heard back from fellow FMLers about two things in relation to health insurance. The first is that some states already bind plaintiffs hands in relation to suing health insurance companies so now that people can't sue them on a federal level until Congress gets off its butt and puts in some patient rights laws those people have about zip recourse. (What ever happened to realization that bad health, handicaps, and death can deplete or destroy the basics of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"? The second is that many, many states have pretty well zilch in relation to pet protection laws so if a pet health company provided substandard care there very possibly would be no way to prove that so no recourse. Save your money for their health care upfront and write off the insurance companies for now unless you know that you will have such protections for them. (Personally, in relation to humans (sub-ferret servant species: SFSS) am hoping that unless Congress jumps immediately and takes fast patient rights actions that companies which provide health insurance will take it down to only catastrophic injury/illness insurance and prescription insurance thus very badly hurting the HMOs where they live and forcing them to provide decent care while scaring the c*%p out of Congress in relation to those bedfellows.) Now, the question come back to where it has often been in the past: ways to share pet protection and pet welfare laws so that all states can improve on that score. In NJ we have some good ones in relation to pet stores and health care, but vets still have their hands tied in a lot of situations. I know that other states have been discussed here which do not provide pretty well ANY type of protection and sometime vets have taken it on the jaw even though they themselves are restricted by law. If such laws are improved the ferrets' lives are improved. So, ideas? [Posted in FML issue 3082]