Couple of itmes for the FML. First, if no one;s reported it, Ferrets have a 14 day quarantine in CT. I'm writing today to the state vet to get some additional clarification. The other is a LONG OVERDUE update on Mira that I'd appreciate if you'd post for her buddies. Thanks! Ann Ferret Weasel Their Way Onto House Pet List By Carolyn Moreau, Courant Staff Reporter. Reprinted from Friday, March 13, 1998 edition of The Hartford Courant. [Moderator's note: The article was deleted due to copyright concerns. BIG] MIRA Update - March 15, 1998 Our apologies, once again, for the delay in updating everyone on Mira's progress. We kept hoping that we'd be able to report on Mira's surgery, but as of yet, she is still in a holding pattern. She is still scheduled to have reconstruction surgery on her leg, but once again, the date has been postponed indefinitely until all the healing that Mother Nature and time provide has been exhausted. We can report that Mira has become quite the brat! It's amazing just how quick animals (and some people too!) can turn a disadvantage into an advantage! In her case, Mira has learned to play on the emotions of the shelter staff to get her way and to get away - with close to - murder! Yes, Mira nips! She will tackle hands, fingers and, when the spirit especially moves her and she thinks no one will catch her, ankles and insteps! Her secret? Knowing just how to be exceptionally cute and doing her very best "roll-over-on-your-back" and "who could hit a poor, physically-challenged" handicapped ferret? No one can, of course! So, we've had to take to putting her back into the "old lady room" whenever her exuberant spirit gets the better of her usually fine temperament while she's out in the "main" section of the house for her continuing nightly physical therapy sessions. Physically, Mira continues her Mira-specialized hoping and side leaping. I continue to try to get a photo of her in her very special Mira pose which looks more like that of a prairie dog than a ferret's! It's her way of climbing up higher to get a better view of the world - instead, she sits up on her hind legs and can almost twirl halfway around in a pirouette to see what's happening! [Posted in FML issue 2255]