>I received a letter of the World Ferret Union asking ferret owners from >other country to write to California Assemblyman Jan Goldsmith to state >that ferrets do not and have never lived in the wild in our country. I am a little uncomfortable with that blanket statement as ferrets HAVE and DO live wild in our country....the Black-Footed Ferret. Granted, **WE** know the difference between the BFF and our fuzzies, but, there are many who don't and they could perceive such a sweeping statement as a purposeful distortion of fact. (Of course, I haven't seen the letter mentioned above and it could very well refer only to m. furo.) I hope my point is well taken.... JW [Posted in FML issue 1901]