Hi there, I'm looking to see how everyone else, especially the other shelters are going to handle this ongoing and possibly urgent issue. I just called Merial myselft to find out how much longer the IMRAB rabies vaccines will be on backorder. (It's been 8 plus weeks already) and when I called today, they have no idea when the rabies vaccines that we use for ferrets will be back in stock. Selfishly speaking, we host an annual Ferret Rabies Clinic and Health Care Day each year typically in April, and have had to postpone it. We are now unable to vaccinate ferrets at the shelter to maintain their vaccinations and worse we are unable to adopt out ferrets until we can vaccinate them for rabies and have a tag. Yes, the vets do have "some" IMRAB rabies vaccine at present, but all the vets I have contacted are starting to run low and soon will run out. How else is everyone handling this? We took in five new ferrets from various sources (some were strays and have been outdoors) and we have no means to vaccinate them. They are all highly adoptable and we have a few families who have applied to be forever homes. The answer from Merial is that they are setting no timeframe expectations and have no idea when or if the vaccine will continue to be available from them...... YIKES With all the ferrets at the shelters already vaccinating them to get them into forever homes should be the least of our worries..... Ideas Anyone? Sincerely, Diane Wall, South Shore Ferret Care Diane - South Shore Ferret Care [Posted in FML 6680]