>From: "Cindy C. Sooy" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Need dates for upcoming shows! I've extracted the below from STAR*'s web site and corrected the mistakes I caught. I've added the AFA events that Pam chooses not to list and deleted things that didn't look like shows. Mar 2 AFA = Ferret Expo New Carrollton MD - 301-663-6616 (too late to enter) MAR 23 Loundon Area Ferret Fanciers (LAFF) Ferrets on Parade - Alexandria Virginia - 703-777-2112 MAR 23 FURO Show = Garden State Ferret Association, NJ - 609-586-9526 APR 13 NAFA Show = Elkhart Co. Fairgrounds, IN - 219-296-1711 MAY 18(?) Midwest Ferret Expo (AFA sanctioning) show in Minnesota over the weekend of a larger Pet Fest. MAY ? Metro Ferret Rescue League, Washington, DC Metropolitan Area - 301-972-1618 JUN 8 Ferret Quest 96 - GLFA Annual Spring show, Ramada Inn, Romulus, MI - call between 5 & 7 pm - 810-471-1535 SEPT 14 NAFA Show - Ohio Ferret Fanciers Assoc - 216-753-6235 SEPT 21 Baltimore Ferret Club Show - Annapolis, MD - 410-448-1281 SEPT or OCT Renaissance 96 - GLFA Fall show, MI - call between 5 & 7 pm - 810-471-1535 OCT 5 National Ferret Fiasco - Legion of Superferrets (LIFE), Croydon PA - 215-946-2747 OCT 12 LIFE Show = ATLANTA, GA - Georgia Domestic Ferret Assoc. - 404-442-5917 OCT 19 8th edition of the Greatest Ferret Show on Earth - DuPage County Fairgrounds, IL - GCFA, Box 7093, Westchester, IL 60154-7093. NOV 2 LIFE Show = Susquehana Valley Ferret Club, PA - 717-540-1078 Central Maryland and the AFA fall show are not scheduled yet unfortunately. Big Apple is up in the air at best. >From: "J. S. LEE" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Questions from a BEGINNER I can't answer the medical questions. >I am giving my ferrets a product called "Nutri-Cal" (Evsco Pharm. NJ, >USA) as dietary supplement... but I am wondering if it is okay to keep >using this. We use nutri-cal as a supplement for sick ferrets and nursing jills. But think of it as candy for ferrets. Give only small amounts as you would give candy to children. >I am going to buy about 1~200 lb of "Totally Ferret Food" from the >States. But before actual order, could anyone recommend a specific >brand of ferret food to me? Totally Ferret is a brand name from Performance foods. Other good choices would be Mazuri Ferret food from Purina Mills or The ferret foods from Marshall Farms or 8in1 companies. >Please pardon my not so good English. Your English is as good as many from the United States. >From: Clare Sebok <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Maryland quarantine bill >Was anyone else from the FML there? Does anyone know if the committee >voted on the bill yet? I think Ellen Byrne might have been there as she is on the list and big in the Maryland ferret groups involved. If I hear anything from her or Diane Rogers that doesn't get posted I'll post. >From: A happy guy <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Mink as pet? Lars, I wouldn't recommend Mink as pets. Wild animals do not make good pets and ranch mink are bred for coat color and their temperament is worse than the wild ones. I've visited a mink ranch and know folks how tried to make pets out of ranch mink. I only know one person who really thinks that is a good idea - she got her 'pets' which she breeds and sells from the mink ranch I visited. >From: Monica Istvan <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Acidic urine/food ingredien Now that we have a ferret person kind oif inside Iams maybe we can get Iams to recognize that they make among the best foods FOR ferrets. We use some 30-40 pounds of Iams a week but they won't put ferret breeders into their breeders program's for cats. Other manufacturers will but we are not as happy with their products. bill and diane killian zen and the art of ferrets [Posted in FML issue 1489]