Dooks to all; Finally got email corrected and cleared. Had 11,999 on one day. Talked to folks at Voyager/Corecomm & they helped. A number of years ago, here in Michigan, a little ferret was being held by the head of the Michigan Health Department, whom I called a Neo-Nazi in a letter to our State Representative in Lansing. In my letter, I showed my research on the internet, to this representative, showing that a ferret cannot survive any longer than 7 days maximum with rabies, the average life span was 4-1/2 days. Research showed that ferrets with rabies become lathargic and their limbs sieze up and do not become agressive, like dogs and cats that have rabies. Finally, my research indicated that the chances of getting rabies from a human bite is 500% greater than that of being bitten by a ferret (so why wasn't Mike Tyson's head cut off?), 1,500% greater by a dog bite, and 2200% greater by a cat bite. My point to our Representative was that Kodo should be freed, and that the Neo-Nazi and her gestapo henchmen were lying through their teeth at the court hearings. Unfortunately, it did not save Kodo. I'm not even certain that the person who was the head of the Michigan Department of Health was canned or not (she should also lose her DVM license, as far as I am concerned). As long as there are people like the one above, we who have ferrets, and love them dearly, we will have to be careful, and watchful. I get nervous when strangers want to see and play with the ferrets, because I don't know what the hooman-beans will do to cause distress for the fuzzies. But this is also true for my dogs and cats. Peace to all Rev.Ronald L. Sims,D.D.& Family: 3 hooman-beans owned by 5 frisky ferts, 5 cute canines, 4 felonious felines and too many fish to count [Posted in FML issue 3666]