Hmmm. Enter scene: Workshop Elves at benches sorting through sky high stacks of mail. IFC Ferret: "Hi, Elves! Have all the ferret people been good this year?" Ellie Elf: "Oh, YES! Almost all of them!" IFC Ferret: "Marvelous! How is our new project going? What was the result when we asked people where they would like to see the next IFC symposium held?" Elves look toward the floor with frowns and go silent. IFC Ferret: "Ellie..." Ellie Elf: "Well, you see, IFCie, people are spread out all over and they all have favorite places to vacation or they would like someplace near them, so... Well... Okay, finally what we did was to mark the places on a map because we heard from so many..." Walks to large curtain against the wall and pulls back cord. One the wall is a huge map of the U.S., and it's territories, and such with almost every square inch covered with thumbtacks. IFC Ferret: faints -- Sukie (not a vet, and not speaking for any of the below in my private posts) Recommended health resources to help ferrets and the people who love them: Ferret Health List http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/ferrethealth FHL Archives http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ AFIP Ferret Pathology http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html Miamiferrets http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/ International Ferret Congress Critical References http://www.ferretcongress.org [Posted in FML issue 5370]