read with great wonder the FML & rec.pets articles on car trips! Apparently there are beaucoups people driving around with ferrets calmly sitting on their laps or blithely perched upon shoulders--quel marvel:-0 For the past eight years I have not only been putting mine in either carrier or cage (depending on trip length)--I have also been actually buckling them in with the seatbelt/shoulder harness! There is an added safety factor here: other drivers will give you a *wide* berth because all they can see is some poor crazy woman driving around apparently talking to herself! Anyway, my question for the list is: are there actually laws about driving with pets? and if so, what? and if you also use carriers, how do *you* keep your weasel from thinking, "(carrier) + (car) = (oh no! trip to vet!)" E.K. panics on outgoing trips and will try so hard to dig his way out that he actually *pants*--although he is fine on the homeward-bound trips. Thanx! Kate and Emmett [log in to unmask] p.s. here is a Santa for your Christmas-tree articles *<|:{>> [Posted in FML issue 0579]