For Lynn Mac Intosh, I'am sorry to reply that I'd dont't found nothing until today... o) I had read also in some books of my country that Queen Victoria gave ferrets as pet gifs for private visitors. But I'd not found confirmation of that in the french biography I'd read. It's a pity but I'd don't continue the research by lack of time and need to work on several ferret's history subjects in the same time ( http://furo.chez.tiscali.fr/histoire1.htm), and I many in late for terminate the numerous wholes on my website... Perhaps it's possible that is mentionned in the begining of the old Everitt's book (from England, 1897), because I don't read yet. Olivier Cornu [Posted in FML issue 4020]