It appears to have the thoroughness that your state will need to consider allowing ferrets. What YOU need to do is to go through and pull the summary portions from each section, then emphasize those in your own materials, and put a summary in plain language such as this GUESS (and it is ONLY A GUESS) of what might find more ready acceptance and still accurately portray the summaries -- but again remember that I only looked at a few of the summaries so you will have to do your own guess once all summaries have been compiled and REMEMBER TO MAKE IT PALATABLE AND EVEN APPEALING TO THE LEGISLATORS AND GOVERNOR even if it means that you can't have everything you would personally want, remembering the regulations often loosen with the test of time: So, take this as just a guess and nothing more: ***** On reading this thorough report you will notice that California does not appear to currently meet the requirements needed for establishment of feral populations of ferrets partly due to the presence of much more effective predators already, Notice, also that the bite risk is no higher than that of dogs or cats -- with the serious bite risk lower due to the small sizes of ferrets. Any concerns on these matters can be met with just a few precautions: 1. Allow pet ferret ownership of neutered or chemically neutered ferrets, but ban the breeding of ferrets. 2. Require pet stores to prominently display signs that no pet, not dogs, not cats, not ferrets, nor any others should be left unsupervised with an infant or anyone who is handicapped beyond the point of appropriate self-defense against the given animal species. For more control and some additional state income, California could emulate some of the other states by requiring an affordable permit of between $15 to $50 per annum per family with a limit on the number of ferrets per household to something like 4 or 6, or there could be no number limit but individual, non-refundable permits for each ferret in a household to be purchased at point of sale with the stores or sellers. If the ferrets moves to a new family then a new permit would be required. Shelters would need a different fee arrangement, with an annual fee specific to shelters as well as inspections. ***** I looked at just a few, and to do this you will have to go through an collect the summaries of each section. For instance, did you know that the San Juan Island rabbits died of DISEASE, not predation by ferrets? 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/ http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html all ferret topics: http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html "All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow." (2010, Steve Crandall) [Posted in FML 6828]