Heard this morning of another case (not in my state) in which a ferret was killed (Heard too late.) by a local department even after the state health department had decided to follow the 1998 Compendium LAST NOVEMBER and HAD made many efforts to educate the local departments. If you haven't contacted YOUR local departments PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do so NOW. The ferret you save may be your own!!!!!!! Remember that you can get copies of the 1998 Compendium of Animal Rabies Control from STAR Ferrets or from the AFA with SASE, or you can copy it from the AVMA website, or ask your vet if you can copy it from the office copy of JAVMA. Send it AND make a follow-up phone call. Have your savvy and friendly local ferret friends get in touch, too. Let them know in a pleasant and non-direct way that you are informed (which means that you could create a very embarrassing situation in the local press if they screw up so they'll want to avoid that). Even in states where the state public health experts have sent info about why they accepted the Compendium and how tough the research is, and have held seminars and used even more info distribution methods there are STILL locals who just file away the papers and don't listen to the talks. Those place NEED friendly pressure (Don't aggravate them -- in some states the locals are autonomous so you need their friendship to save lives, and pounds can kill for no reason beyond lack of space.) Otherwise, the next time a slightly long claw on one of your ferrets, or a kiss over a cut, or a "Let me down" nip, or a bite by a terrorized ferret (which could be YOUR ferret) happens that fuzzie might wind up dead before the killing can be stopped. SAVE YOUR FERRET TODAY! Kym is working on a website about the Compendium and compliiance (HAS now been accepted by MOST states on a state level). Sukie [Posted in FML issue 2277]