The reason for testing the bat strain rabies virus ... when a ferret bites and the owner asks for quarentine instead of kill and test, the owner is uaually told, "Well, there's no testing completed that says ferret's *don't* pass on the bat-strain of raibies, so we're gong to kill and test your ferret anyway." End of story, end of ferret's life. The shed study will be completed regardless of who sends $1, it'll just take longer to get funding straightened out, so more fuzzies will be killed and tested in the meantime by animal conrol agencies all over the country. Would you pay $1 to save the life of your own ferret? --Sheri "Until our paths find us together may you forever go in peace." --Mike Rayburn (comic entertainer and acoustic rock artist) [Posted in FML issue 2014]