I was just doing some googling on this as I haven't in awhile. There a a multitude of organizations which in a way splits up the effort which is bad. For basic animal law I ran across this one. If you want to help ferrets, and shut down ferret-millers, ferret-farms etc. I think you need to be aware of and involved in the broader overall fight for better legislation to protect all animals. Especially since some of this legislation might not have specific enough wording to include ferrets and that oversight needs to get some visibility. http://www.aldf.org/ Of note, in Nebraska there has been a fight on in the last year or so over setting standards for breeding - . It is a law mostly designed to set some VERY basic standards at puppy-millers but the AKC and its small dog breeders fought this hard. I ran into an article on the same thing in Minnesota (dated Jan 2007 no less). Ultimately its all about money. Anyone making money off of live pets is a problem and will fight these laws tooth and nail or interject themselves to get the laws changed to provide loopholes for themselves. In an AKC comment they basically said they wanted dogs to continue to be considered property and that people should be able to do what they want with their property. I've been very anti-AKC for a long long time. Parent breed clubs and UKC are somewhat better. Mary, Nebraska [Posted in FML 5530]