To the anonymous poster who is displeased with Ferrets Anonymous. Please don't get too down on them! They are doing their best considering ferrets are ILLEGAL in California. People have gone to jail for being too trusting of others as ferrets are concerned. As I have been a contact person in my area for them in the past, whenever someone called looking for a shelter or breeder in this state I have been very cautious and mostly suggested going out of state. This is in fact what you probably will have to do unless you start getting involved with a local group and come to meetings as Carie suggested the other day in her post (she made some good points)! All of the groups here in CA need all the help they can get if we want to someday see ferrets become legal! Plus... when you get to know other ferret people in your area they will be more likely to trust that you are not a Fish and Game "spy". As for out of state shelters there is the Pacific Ferret Shelter Network ( http://www.ferretnet.org/ ) in Oregon (my guys came from there) and I am sure there are many others to the east that have plenty of wonderful ferrets looking for homes. Also the FA website has routes to take to avoid most of those pesky agriculture checkpoints (not that they are that hard to "run" if you are discreet about it). Unfortuatly going out of state is often the way it has to be done. On another note, to the person who was inquiring about the enzyme dosage. I was advised by my vet that just a small pinch at each "feeding" was adequate for my cat. If you put too much in the ferrets may not want to eat their food so start with an even smaller pinch if this seems to be the case. Hopefully they won't even notice but sometimes they get picky if you fool with their food too much! Jeez, you think they would like the variety!! Plus if you can get them to eat a raw meat diet then you don't need the added enzymes at all and it's much better for them! Good luck and here's to their good health! By the way John Goodman I'm sure had previous experience with ferrets when he was filming The Big Lebowski. A movie that I highly recomend for its wierd surreal strangeness. The ferret scene is when "The Dude" is in the bathtub and these Germans burst in with a ferret which they throw into the tub to "attack" The Dude. The ferret of course looks horrified at being dunked in the water rather than being menacing and they also don't refer to it as a ferret either but fert people have sharp eyes! They also later make a veiled reference to them being illegal. But it is just another strange thing about that movie. Peace, Sadie "... and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and to know the place for the first time." -T.S. Eliot "But we cannot reshape consciousness by force or through fear, for to do so would only reinforce what we are trying to change. We must bring about change through nonviolence, physical and spiritual. We are called to take a radical leap of faith, to believe that people, given the opening to dream of new possibilities, with tools and visions will create a living future." - Starhawk from The Spiral Dance [Posted in FML issue 3335]