Selected articles from the Oct/Nov issue of the Independent Voice are now up on the Web, including: --informative articles about the New Zealand feral ferrets; --a sobering commentary on the crisis in the ferret shelter network; --a provocative analysis of the data on Vitamin A toxicity in ferrets. http://www.acmeferret/com/voice On the LIFE site, the on-line version of the second edition of the Ferret First Aid handbook prepared by Ann Davis & Dr. Jean Wardell DVM can be downloaded. This valuable reference source is also being provided free of charge to anyone who wants it for the cost of a SASE & the 55 cents postage required to send it through the mails. The first edition was sent out to hundreds of veterinarians, humane societies and animal controls in Massachusetts early this year when ferrets were legalized there. http://www.acmeferret.com/infobank/ffaid.htm Also available for downloading or browsing is a very hefty (250k) bibliography of "Ferrets as Laboratory Animals" prepared by the USDA in collaboration with Dr. James Fox of MIT, containing more than 700 bibliographic entries on experiments performed on (and occasionally for the benefit of) ferrets. http://www.acmeferret.com/infobank/labdata.htm Finally, the entirety of Jan Lovell's informative posts on the 1995 Georgia bite case is on the medical/legal information bank site (formerly Rabies and Bite Information Bank). http://www.acmeferret.com/infobank/georgia.htm Howard Davis Independent Voice- http://www.acmeferret.com/voice LIFE- http://www.acmeferret.com/life ACME Ferret Co.- http://www.acmeferret.com ACME- http://www.acmeferret.com [Posted in FML issue 1742]