Hello All, I just started receiving the FML about 2 days ago. It's amazing what you can learn in so little time. On the subject of a National Organization, why not call it plain and simple, The National Ferret Organization (NFO)? Then to organize it, there's no reason to break up all the individual organizations. Most of the organizations that I've noticed are localized, mostly by state. On a large scale basis, the best way to do it will most likely be to use these smaller organization to the advantage of the larger. Just a simple breakdown, like a large corporation. 1. National 2. Regional (10 states) 3. State 4. Division (several counties) 5. County 6. In the case of LARGE counties several small locals Each of these would report to and take info from the next step up the ladder. Since most of these groups already have nice sized mailing lists, they should be combined to make the national mailing list. Several ads in Ferret Mags and on ferret and pet web pages would bring in more Ferret Lovers. Then we could keep local info local and the major stuff and national info, goes out to the national lists. I think I'm being clear, I'm not always the best writer because my thoughts overtake my fingers. Thank God for Spell checkers!!! And Ferrets too! This is just and idea of the structure of the organization. Once we have a good layout for the way it should be run, then we can work on implementing the whole shabang! Implementing it will be easy if we can get the others to come together as one. -Gregg (aka 3 G's) -Casper the Friendly Ferret -TAZ the crazy whirlwind [Posted in FML issue 1971]