If you are in an appropriate district in New Jersey: Walt Kavanaugh (a Republican, running for a State Senate seat) has a history of helping ferrets. Many years ago a legislator (a young Republican) was trying to get together legislation to ban ferrets in N.J.; a quick phone call turned up that Kavanaugh who held his current Assembly seat at that time happened to know some ferrets personally and liked them a LOT. He said he'd kill the effort to ban ferrets and he did -- fast. In recent years he has been following the shedding time studies, he got some materials through to the Health Department, and he has expressed an interest in being available for efforts to further help ferrets. Steve and I are Independents with personal histories of voting split tickets; most of my votes this time will be for Democrats but I'll vote for Kavanaugh and some other Republicans, too. If you are in an appropriate district and are undecided about your N.J. State Senate vote, please, remember a man who has already helped ferrets. Sukie [Posted in FML issue 2109]