Pat's message is at the bottom of my message, I must say that after watching so much political "crap slinging" in "Sac-of-tomatoes" (sacramento) it hardly comes as a surprise that they ruled against Ferret ownership. The oh so mighty "fish and games" need something to do as our off coast fish populations are basically non-exsistant due to over fishing, huntable wildlife is gone, and tide pools and shorelines are striped of any life and shipped to aquarium stores so they need a new attention getting device to make their exsistence noteworthy. "Let's pick on the ferrets!!!" What a crock of sh-t. What they really need is a shot of thorazine, (50 cc should work). They say their collective worth is protecting wildlife, you really want to protect wild life , get rid of cats!!!! They account for more losses of song birds, small mammals and small animals then any other animal ether wild or domesticated (ok , fire away felinaphiles). They ruthlessly kill even though they are well fed, they also sadistically play with their victims before killing them . We used to live in hollywood florida, abandoned cats killed off all the shore birds , gulls, terns, sheerwaters, whatever and the local cat-lovers bring them food and water daily. A program by the National Geographic followed a group of cats that had access to their outdoor playground , these G-D D-mned cats had killed off so many species of critters that it makes you sick and mind you these are "domesticated cats". Cats are the true menace to wildlife, in Australia , cats have extermenated 16 species of mammals that are now extinct... But would the CF&G go after cats , h-ll no , it's the "political third rail" touch it you die. So instead of aiming at getting ferrets legalised lets get them with their own words, if they want to put ferrets into a group of wildlife killers than they MUST include cats in that group!!! how fast would the wheels of justice turn? "I Can't Have My Little Fluffy!!",,,,,,, "Sorry lady, fluffy has killed 15,000 sparrows, two goldfinches and a mailman, we have to put him down!!" Sounds stupid, well, the numbers might be wrong but the idea is right. So let's go into court with those sierra club knuckleheads and force them to make cats "illegal" as they kill wildlife... it's their arguement, lets use it. If it comes down to numbers , their are several societies that track wildlife kills by felines, show that against a graph of ferret kills, lets see what it looks like , Ferrets= 1opossum, 2 sparrows, a lizard (Western Fence lizard) and a gopher Felines= 64,000 sparrows, 24,000 squrrials, 18,000 lizards (several species) and numerous endangered species Well???? Mark J., Peta S., Maximillion (The Chihuahua) & Zeus (The Weasel) >Our attorney, George Weingarten called today to announce that we lost >in the Court of Appeals. > >Our legal options are now over. We have previously exhausted our >legislative options and we have been unsuccessful in front of the Fish >and Game Commission. George further informs me that the court will now >probably come after me for court costs.... [Posted in FML issue 4255]