Courtney Scholl asked: What should I do about the required certification (of vaccines)? Courtney, as the GLFA Show Registrar, I can tell you the GLFA requires either a veterinarian signed certificate OR the insert and/or lot number from the distemper vaccine you used (along with the date given, of course). Rabies vaccines in Michigan are required to be administered by a vet and so only a vet signed rabies certificate will be accepted. Hope this helps you. Easel Weasel, my three-legged super ferret, has found a home!! A wonderful couple who I met through the FML came over on Wednesday and chose her to take home with them. She is fairly nippy, but after watching them work with her, I know the additional one-on-one handling will make a world of difference. Melissa-I hope she gets along with the rest of your gang!! My cute ferret story of the day: My mother was relocating from Mississippi back to Michigan and was staying with us til she could find a place of her own. I only had two ferrets at the time (Cooter and Lugnut) and she got along fine with both. But Cooter just loved to scare her and make her scream. He would get in the kitchen cupboards and climb up the drawers and get in the top drawer which had the silverware in it. Here comes the patience part, he would wait there (sometimes as long as 10-15 min, imagine a ferret staying still that long while still awake!!) for my mother to come open the drawer. As soon as she opened it he would POP up at her. Of course, she never quite got used to this (he didn't do it EVERY day!) and she would scream and jump back a couple of steps. Cooter loved this and would walk around the house chuckling for hours afterward. You could almost see the smirk on his face :) Bill: I can't remember the gentlemans name I spoke to. I only know he was "fairly high up" in MF. Everyone else was busy, so he took my call. I told him I had heard MF was a closed colony for several years and I was seeing MF ferrets that didn't "look" the part. When I asked had they brought in new bloodlines, he said no, they were working with the same ferrets as always. He did say their geneticists had "worked wonders" with their breeders (don't know what he meant by that). I guess when I referred to the changes, the size struck me more than the color changes (your explanation there makes sense to me). I have seen big ferrets come from small ferrets, but there are larger ferrets in the background. If MF is using the same breeder lines year after year, I don't think that would apply to them. I agree with your position that they must have introduced new lines. In fact, if they did, you'd think they would advertise the fact not try to hide it as one of my concerns with MF ferrets is the lack of new lines. I did hear once that the reason most of their ferrets looked similar was the fact they bred for research and in doing so prefer the animals to be as closely genetic as possible. To all those looking for Totally Ferret (I personally don't feed it, but to each their own) I just got my new Jeffers catalog yesterday and they now carry TF in 12.25 oz and 5lb. bags. Their number is 1-800-JEFFERS and they deliver about anywhere. I've dealt with them several times, and always get good service. I think this is long enough for today (put it where you want BIG:)) Tracy and her cute, lovable, adorable, kissy ferrets (No, I'm not prejudiced!!!) [Posted in FML issue 1670]