The vet who said that was new to ferrets at the time and didn't know that the people, who lived at that time both on a different continent (I am trying to not give away too much about them by not being specific as to continent and country.) and in Brazil, traveling between the two nations on most years, used the SAME legal travel papers for every pair of ferrets they traveled with over the years to avoid some pretty horrid paperwork. Having communicated with all parties since the vet made that statement I can tell you that is the verified upshot. The actual ferrets involved lived similar lifespans to most U.S. ferrets. The oldest ferrets I knew of who have actual confirmation lived to be 14, though I heard this year that a vet knows of a confirmed 15 year old. Sukie (not a vet) Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html [Posted in FML 6159]