Since I keep most of my ferrets whole it is nice to see groups staring to spring up for the owners of whole ferret, both here in the UK and world wide. I think once you have kept whole ferrets you can definitely see a difference between ferrets that have been altered and ferrets that have been kept as naturale as possible. This is not to say that I believe in the mass production of ferret kits, my advice to people is to get their hobs vasectomised then they can be kept with whole jills. By doing it this way people who are on a low income such as pensioners can still rescue ferret and they don't have so much to pay out, also if some of the small rescues / hobbyist / animal collectors / what ever they wish to call them selves were to do it this way then their outlay on vets bill would be much smaller. UK rescues or people willing to help with ferrets in an emergency. Because I get lots of calls over the year about ferrets that are in the need of rescuing, I thought that I would start of a list of registered and non register ferret rescues or people who are just willing to help out in an emergency, I shall be adding it to the end of my articles which I write for several magazines, the list will also be freely available at any of our events. Anyone in the UK who is interested please give your location, name of rescue if any, charity status, contact name and phone number. Thank you http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/house-ferrets ; http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/head-gardener ; http://www.geocities.com/houseferrets13uk/index.html ; http://www.webspawner.com/users/ferretwelfare/index.html ; http://groups.msn.com/UKHouseFerretsSmallPetsAssociation ; (c) Artis Pet Sanctuary, UK [log in to unmask] Registered Charity http://www.headway.org.uk/ Some great people who have supported me through my illness. All copy rights reserved by Author (c) [Posted in FML issue 4305]