I don't know where you got your information from but you've obviously been misinformed. The only suburbs in the Twin Cities metro area to prohibit ferret ownwership are Bloomington and Burnsville. And recent animal control ordinance changes have all but legalized ferrets in Bloomington. If you call the city of Minneapolis they will tell you ferrets are banned, however they have absolutely no law to that effect. What they will quote is an ordiance which prohibits the keeping of wild animals within the city limits which they interpret to also include the Domestic Ferret. They have lost this point in court in the past. Recently Mpls animal control has been told by the Mpls city attorney's office to stop telling people ferrets are illegal in the city. This was in response to a complaint about a pet shop displaying a sign which stated that they could not sell ferrets to anyone with a Mpls address because they are illegal in Mpls. After hearing from the city attorney, animal control no longer required the pet shop to display the sign. Whenenver you are checking into the legality of ferret ownership always have a copy of the applicable law or ordinance sent to you. They are often quite different from what the animal control and public health officals think they say or interpret them to mean. Remember, something is not illegal unless there is a law against it. [MCD] [Posted in FML issue 1921]