>If anyone could be so kind as to send pictures of ferrets being killed >at Agricultural Stations in California... I don't know where this information comes from. It makes me crazy. I have been the Southern California Coordinator for the Agricultural Station rescue program for 10+ years. My co coordinator Gary P. handles the Northern California stations. NEVER in my years doing it have I heard of a ferret being killed. For the most part the people working at the stations don't like the law anymore than we do. Time and time again I have seen them stretch the rules for ferrets. On the other hand I have heard and seen the Ag station employees be treated badly for doing their jobs. When a ferret is confiscated. Gary or I am called. We in turn call a volunteer who goes to pick the ferret up and take it out of state. The rules are, we 48 hours to pick the ferret up. I have known the stations to hold a ferret for a week because the owner promises to come back and pick the ferret up on their way back out of the state. Only to have the owner not show up. I can give you tons of stories like this. The stations have called me to pick up, gerbils, monk parrots, raccoons, hedgehogs, and on and on. They don't have to do any of this. But they do. By law these animals could be euthanized. They are not! Gary and I have some of the best volunteers in this program. They spend their time and money, (some drive long distances) to pick these animals up. Then they find homes for them. I am eternally grateful to them for all that they do. If anyone living close to the California border is interested in being a volunteer, please contact me, We can always use help. Thanks, Robin Jones [Posted in FML 6632]