Greetings. I have a quick question about rabies shots...I hope that someone will be able to help. Last week I took my two little girls to the vet for distemper/rabies and general checkup. The checkup was good and the vet said that they were very healthy. He gave them the distemper shots but refused to give them the rabies vaccine. Now, everything that I have read said that ferrets have a natural immunuty to rabies, there have been no reported cases of rabies in ferrets in the last hundred or whatever years, and that the only reason to get the vaccine is to protect against some crazed person who, by some freak of nature, has gotten bitten by my rabbid ferret. The ferret gets taken away..blah blah blah. Anyway, the vet said that currently there is no rabies vaccine specifically for ferrets. He administered the vaccine to a ferret three years ago, the ferret had a very negative reaction and almost died. Until they develop a vaccine recommended for ferrets, he says that he won't give them. He also said that if for some reason one of my sweet, sweet little girls bites someone and they scream the rabies thing, that he will tell them that ferrets can't get rabies, etc. (whew) I trust my vet, he came highly recommended, and was very gentle and careful with my little girls, but should I take them somewhere else? Or insist that he give it to them? Thanks- Jason Samantha-"Stop kissing me!!!!!!" Tabitha-"Daddy, mommy made fun of my big ears!!" [Posted in FML issue 1881]