Ferret food One breeder in the Stockholm area is reputedly investigating the feasibility of importing ferret specific food from the USA. I don't know which brand. Ferret census One of our ferret organisations is doing the long term planning for a total ferret census in Sweden, both present and past. They have partly arranged for sponsors for an ad campaign in daily newspapers. A report will probably take two years or more to be finished. This will be very useful when trying to influence politicians to enact pro-ferret legislation. We don't have any anti-ferret rules to get rid of, but it would be nice to give them equal status to cats and dogs. Aleutian disease Since AD, or Plasmacytosis as we preferably call it in Sweden, has proved to be very persistent (in one case a farm lay abandoned for three years but was still contagious) we've suspected that AD is an airborne disease. Now we have proof that it is. If you filtrate the air, the viruses doesn't spread, so they must hitch a ride on dust particles or something. SVA, the state veterinary agency, estimates the danger zone to be a radius of 1 km. Naturally it can also spread by sticking to clothes and so on. -- Urban Fredriksson [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 0914]