I did a Google search for ferret bites because I was looking for the statistics I had read about a year ago. Imagine my surprise when the 6th item in the Google search was titled "Ferrets - A New Menace To Public Health" Here is a link to the article http://www.epi.hss.state.ak.us/bulletins/docs/b1986_9.htm Granted this article is dated June,6 1986 but, it is a State of Alaska Bulletin that is still easily accessible. This Bulletin is filled with obvious errors and reads like something out of the onion (Satirical Newspaper). If this were your only source for ferret info you would expect every ferret to have fire dancing in their eyes, foam and blood dripping from their mouths and to be laying in wait to attack the next baby that ventured into their domain. Oh and you better lock your doors because the feral population is multiplying faster than mosquitoes. I think we should all take a minute or two out of our day to send an email to Joel Gilbertson [log in to unmask] , Alaska Health and Human Services Commissioner, and ask him to remove Bulletin No. 9 titled Ferrets - A New Menace To Public Health from their official website. This is the most outlandish thing I have found about ferrets on the web. Ken Nyren Ken Nyren, 15/6/2005 [Posted in FML issue 4910]