Hi Amy, I am in the Air Force. I have also been stationed at Fairchild AFB. Like any other Air Force Base, that veternarian was most likely Army, not AF. The Air Force recognizes the ferret as a domestic animal, while the Army does not. Ferrets are unwelcome on Army posts. I'm stationed on an Army post in VA. The vet here refuses to even give my ferrets a rabies shot. This tends to cause a lot of problems with Air Force personnel who are not stationed close to a ferret-wise vet. Maybe in the future, the regulations will be changed. Then we will work on the ignorance. Angela Gumbi, Duncan, Be Be, Cee Cee [Posted in FML issue 1692]