>>> And since many of us keep ours indoors and are not exposed to rabies, they shouldn't have the right to kill the ferret to do unnecessary rabie tests. But unfortunately, we ferret owners cannot do anything.<<< Here I HAVE to disagree with you. <No flame intended please> I'm just a ferret owner too. Not a lawyer, not a politician. No particular influence anywhere (especially trying to get my ferrets to do anything, but that's another story). My wife and I joined with other ferret owners (and not many of them either) and drafted a Bill to provide for a quarantine period for vaccinated ferrets. We collected the data (a lot of it from sources here in the FML). We testified before the NH State House Committee and got the Bill passed through the House last month. This month we go the the Senate Committee, then hopefully to the full Senate and onto the Governor. If we don't make it this year, we'll be back next year. The point is that ferret owners CAN do something. They are the only ones who will. If everyone waits for someone else to do it, it'll never get done. Dick Bossart [Posted in FML issue 1157]