Yes it is true that ferrets are legal in Baltimore county and City. The county came around several months ago and the city in the past couple of weeks. It was all due to the tireless work of one person, Diane Rogers of the Baltimore Ferret Club. Diane, the former president of Metro Ferrets and now president of Balto Ferrets, has been working trielessly on this by herself since starting her ferret club a year and a half ago. Diane lives in Balto city in old historic Dickyville and has been holding ferret events there for years. It seems the authorities had only two officers who were in charge of animal control and couldn't care less about ferrets. The county was pretty easy, but when Diane presented her information to the City Council, they asked her to return with more. At that time she was able to show them the rough cut version of the new Pet Pals Ferret Video from Budd Sanford of SEI productions in California (I met Budd at the HSUS convention in San Diego and he has bent over backwards to help us in our work). Even though the music wasn't there and the editing wasn't finished, It helped win them over. It just goes to show what can be done by one person! Well done Diane. --Ann [Posted in FML issue 0859]