Linda writes >I came upon a page about trapping ferrets in New Zealand In the early 1900s, both domestic ferrets and wild European polecats were released by the thousands in NZ to try to control the (also introduced) rabbit population. Ferrets and polecats have interbred, and what is there now is probably more polecat than ferret. A few years ago, domestic ferrets were made illegal there because of concerns over the kiwi population. Of course, the animals deliberately introduced a century ago are the main problem, not the pets people keep today. Linda Iroff International Ferret Congress http://www.ferretcongress.org [Posted in FML issue 5322]