Mohammad Ashor: When choosing a ferret its best to ignore color and usually gender. Pick the healthiest ferret you can find. Bright eyes and good coat. Strong muscles and bones. Pick a ferret by personality not pattern. Greg Mohs: What kind of legal case are you interested in? Possibly interesting cases are the jailing of J. Au in Virginia for refusing to turn over a ferret in a bite case, quarantine in South Carolina (btw folks this is now a state with a mandated quarrantine period as of November - Good job Katie and Maggie Sweeney!), the recent case in Maryland, the jailing of the guy crossing into California. I'm sure I and several others here can help you get information but the topic now is too broad for us to start for you. Anna Spear: Wood is not wood. Aspen is fine for use in pets. No aromatic oils like the evergreens. In your situation I would take proper care of the ferrets as best you know - what you've said leads me to believe you are sharp on ferrets. Try for eduction for this owner. Give him the ferret FAQs and maybe even a book such as the one from Dr. Bell at Marshall farms. I try to give people the benefit of the doubt. It gets me in trouble sometimes but most of the time it works out. Marshall tattoos: Marshall farms does not do a one dot alter only tattoo. I've seen cases where the dots were so close to gether they look like one and there are the Canadian breeders with tattoos. Other breeders do tattoos as well sometimes to pass their ferrets off as Marshall and sometimes for the same reasons that Marshall does tattoos. Ferret nipples: All mammals have nipples so all ferrets have nipples. Non-sexually mature mammals have much less noticible nipples than mothers. I can often tell jills that have had litters based on the size of their nipples. Last two topics sound like they belong on a completely different kind of list... Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah and Happy New Year. All the season's best from those two and four legged folks at Zen! bill and diane killian zen and the art of ferrets [Posted in FML issue 1421]