Eric-- The Assembly Bill to legalize ferrets failed to pass the vote. >From the way the votes fell, it appeared that the assemblypeople didn't really take the issue seriously and just voted along political lines. The only hope the "ferret lobby" in CA have for this year now is probably going to be to tack the ferret legislation onto the end of another, more popular bill. I suppose they could write an entirely different bill to introduce, but that's not likely to get much attention either, I would think. Very disappointing, especially considering how hard many ferret lovers worked to gather support for this bill... it was lost by 3 votes the first time the Assembly voted on it. The only good thing about it is that the Dept. of Fish & Game may finally have gone way too far in their misinformation campaign. Just before the second vote they were distributing flyers stating that ferrets were a rabies risk and that the Imrab vaccine is ineffective at preventing rabies in ferrets. Needless to say, this info was passed along to the manufacturer and distributor of the vaccine, and their lawyers have become involved. A settlement that would force F&G into a public retraction, hopefully a printed one that was distributed nationwide, since some of those flyers were reported to have made it to other states is hoped for, but I haven't heard anything further about this in a couple of weeks... I will have to ask of those who were closer to this.... At any rate, sorry to say, but ferrets are still illegal in CA. Debra in Ft. Worth, TX [Posted in FML issue 0816]