From what I know there were at least two polls. One was by Amy Flemming (or was it you Sukie?). The other was by me a couple years ago. I recieved over 500 surveys. My mistake was that I looked for far too many things. Everything from how long a tail was to life span. I would have liked to put the data on a type of map or graph for people. But I didn't know how. It would have been painstaking work, and I found that I am too busy to do it. Pam Sessoms generously helped by putting the survey up on the web. It's still there as far as I know for if I ever want to do it again. Anyway, just on a visual basis, I didn't find anything remarkable ... only things that I expected. But one thing that did stand out dramatically was lifespan. If I recall only three ferrets lived past 6. Now of course that is one "snapshot" of a very small sampling and of a very narrow genre of ferret owners. But I found it impressive myself. Of course on any other given time, I could find 10 people that write me that their ferrets lived much longer. But at that given point in time, from that sampling, that was the finding. Wolfy http://wolfysluv.jacksnet.com [Posted in FML issue 4869]