Sharon wrote: >Regarding the FERRATS, the story is very sad (much worse than my >ferrets from craigslist). But I cracked up at the name FERRATS. Maybe >I'll use that if I ever get caught with these illegal aliens. I'll >just say they're FER-RATS, a special kind of rat, since rats are not >illegal here. In fact I saw a nice big rat jauntily walking on the >subway platform last week! > >From the city that never sleeps, even the rats don't sleep. Years ago an FML member wrote about going through a California inspection station in which a novice inspector noticed that person's ferret. The inspector asked what the ferret was and the person replied that it was a rare breed of Polish Cat, sometimes called the Pole Cat for short. In relation to ferrets used as seizure animals. In all 4 cases of which I have read the ferret would alert the person BEFORE the seizure hit and people had time to take meds and lie down in a safe spot. One woman had been several years seizure-free due to advance warning. One I have read about in Canada was a man and not only would the ferret let him know that he was about to seize but would go get his wife if she was in the house. BTW, I am sure that it just the way things were written or how they read, but i find it extremely hard to warrant that a dog can use a telephone. ;-) Please, clarify what you meant. 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) On change for its own sake: "You can go really fast if you just jump off the cliff." (2010, Steve Crandall) [Posted in FML 6989]