When my vet had to sign a health certificate for my fuzzies to fly on American Airlines (a company that is violently anti-ferret and will not fly ferrets), she wrote down: "Species: Cat Variety: Polish" The vet felt that she certified a cat of the "Pole" variety (polecat) and was therefore not really telling a lie. Because one cannot see inside the carrier cage, and it is padlocked, the ferrets flew without incident, and the certificates were accepted. BTW, the vet consented to do this because she called AA and had a screaming fit with them when the AA rep told her that the airline could not possibly transer ferrets because ferrets were "vicious, biting, wild animals that carried lots of diseases and were far too dangerous to transport." !!!! - Erika (Misty, Sasha, Lizzie) [Posted in FML issue 1337]