The results of the rabies test on Cocoa, the Lake County ferret, were negative, of course. I have heard that the owner wrote a poem for Cocoa and is buying ad space in her local newspaper to have it printed. I will ask her permission to post it here. Channel 3 WKYC did a somewhat longer story on their 11 pm news on Tuesday. Corrections from my previous post: they are an NBC affliate (hey the A and N keys look too much alike) and Bev's ferrets are Tiller and Bouncer (Houdini must have been whispering to me from the Rainbow Bridge). On the 11 report, the anchor introduced the story saying rabies have been increasing alarmingly in the state, mostly carried by wild animals. This story is about an animal that isn't wild, but is being treated like it is. Besides the stuff they showed earlier, the guy from Health said although there is a vaccine for ferrets, it isn't 100% effective, and that studies aren't done on shedding periods yet. Cut to me saying there are lots of new results in the last 2 years. They showed closeups of shelter ferret Cricket looking blissful as I rubbed her ears, smelly young hob Zeus climbing on the carrier (his appointment to be unmanned is next Thursday), and Bev's beefy blazes, Tiller and Bouncer, in their carrier and being held by Joy. Also showed shelter fert Wally in the carrier next to T&B. Linda Iroff North Coast Ferret Shelter http://www.oberlin.edu/~liroff/ncfs.html [Posted in FML issue 2048]