Editor Ch. 4 KRON, The ferret bite was totally taken out of context. As any ferret owner knows - Ferrets love rubber. Rocky the ferret had a camera with 3-4 inch piece of rubber shoved in his face, that so happened to have a finger attached to it. Rocky went for the rubber on the camera lense and found a finger instead and was taking said finger to his hidey-hole, where all ferrets stash toys, keys and rubber thingys with fingers attached to them. I personally know Rocky and his owner and Rocky would never intentionally bite anyone. Rubber, however is game for any playful Ferret. This happened at Rocky's home. At the Ferret Freedom Walk, there were approximately 25-30 Ferrets and 60-70 Ferret owners. There were at least a 100 different people at a given time interacting with all the Ferrets and not one bite incident took place. A lady walks up with an ugly 40lb mut-terrier type dog and a young women sitting on the sidewalk with her hands, palm spread leaning back, while ferret is in her lap, gets bitten by said DOG! The dog grabs her by the arm and proceeds to drag her off by the arm. The owner of the dog says," Oh, he always does that, he was abused." Uh, excuse me, why do you bring him in public. He wanted to see the ferrets, response. Like the finger and rubber on camera was an accident, this dog bite could be said was an accident, dog could have been going through owners arms to get ferret, but in a frenzy missed ferret and grabbed girls arm instead. Now that is responsible reporting. But did that make the news or paper, HELL NO!! You can tell Pete Wilson to go suck rotten duck eggs with Fish & Game and Patrick Johnston, he's so ignorant. I'd rather take a chance with a ferret running me down to take a bite out of my ass, than a Rotweiller, Pitt Bull or the damn Huskies next door that broke out of thier yard and KILLED my feline companion, that MY Rotweiller played with!! You irresposible reporting makes you no better than the papprazzi who chased Princess Diana to her DEATH ! My husband defends the very constitution that guarantees us the right of private ownership of personal property. A domestic pet is considered private property. Taxes are paid on private domestic property. Guess whose salaries are paid from those taxes ? California's Dept. of Fish & Game has misclassified the domestic pet ferret as wild and if made legal could go feral. That in itself is a joke, the Native North American Wild Black Footed Ferret is near extinction. So tell me how a domestic, cat food eating ferret could stay alive ? Duh ! Man is the only dangerous feral animal on this Planet. On January 24th, 1998 turn on your TV sets and watch National Geographic. 8 pm est. Maybe you will see for yourself what mankind is doing to the Wild North American Black-Footed Ferret. Help us educate, not flame or lie to the public who looks to you for accurate reporting. You know there was a time when the East looked to the West for changes, now the East and the rest of the world is laughing at California. The internet has opened the eyes of the world. If Pete Wilson thinks he'll run for president, he will be the laughing stock of the world !! Every pet owner that has access to the internet knows about the ignorance and tyranny going on in California. Thats a lot of people. Sincerely, Sheba Williamson [Posted in FML issue 2175]