HI readers- I am dumb founded that there is NOT more discussion nor indication of involvement on the issue of the current Chicago Ban on Exotics-- GUYS WAKE UP-- I have emphatically tried to state in past years that this is a TERRIBLE thing for ferrets. INDEED there is a plot in the Animal welfare community to erradicate ferrets as companion animals and it is deeply rooted. ANimal People - Sept. 2002 front page article outlined just this venue.. I have referred to this plight as the "California Backlash" there were groups in NYC which accomplished this wrongful classification, then it moved to Colorado now we read it is in Chicago. What indeed the plot is -- it to list ferrets as exotics and then the states will have motions filed to OUTLAW ownership of exotic animals. DO NOT SIT BACK-- MAKE SOME NOISE and kill this attempt to declassify our companion pets. IS THIS REALLY WHAT YOU WANT TO HAVE HAPPEN? Ferrets were domesticated prior to the feline the ARE DOMESTICATED COMPANION ANIMALS ( like the canine and feline companion) -- NOT EXOTICS!!! . There needs to be some organization to fight the current classification attempt. Contact a ferret friend ly vet- present CDC information etc . THIS NEEDS to STOP before the pockets of ferret exclusion become the rule. Alicia D www.ferretwise.org [Posted in FML issue 4217]