>From: Megan <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: colloidal silver Just to point out that I'm not against all "experimental" or "non-traditional" medicines. >Megan O'Shaughnessy, D.C. | North Cascades Chiropractic Clinic Megan practices a form of medicine that is widely considered something other than mainstream. I just wish Megan lived in this area, I'd sign up as a patient. >Ela, I understand your statements, but those very statements leave a lot >of questions begging. What is a "properly made" brand? Ela has favorite brands and is basically quoting their advertising. Some brands imagine a difference between their silver and some other silver. Such a distinction is basically imaginary. Some colloidal silver proponents even claim erroniously that only silver nitrate can cause argyra. Or that lower doses of smaller particles don't. Argyra is not that well studied. No one knows the dosage required to cause it in any particular person (it doesn't seem to be a set amount universally for all people). I believe medicine is a science not a religion. In researching colloidal silver I have used scientific understandings not philosophical or religious beliefs that are nothing more than desires in evaluating whether I would try the various substances all called colloidal silver. >From: meagan quinn <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Bull vs. Whippet >I have never heard this--either on the FML, WWW, or in books i had read-- >according to him Marshalls farms are attempting to breed more a whippet >face structure vs a bull face (like a bull dog-squished and fat) In our opinion whippet ferrets don't exist. Marshall neuters their ferrets early which leads to incomplete maturation and devlopment of the skeleton and its muscle cover. They look thinner. But its a developmental thing not a genetic thing. Some people have bred for too short a face or too rounded a face. This is asking for ferrets with the same problems as American bred Persian cats and bulldogs. Americans are far worse at this than Europeans. Whippet vs. bulldog should go the way of Egyptian ferrets and ferrets in Leviticus. Some ferrets are stockier than others. Some are leaner. Lets avoid 'ferret breeds'. >I always took the difference in head shape to be male vs. female. I had >read that males have a wider face and females a more slender face. Yes. Males that are neutered younger develop more like females than like whole (or unneutered) males. >From: "Reet ..." <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Ferrets, ferrets *argh* Cats didn't go out of domestication. They've been domesticated the entire time since they were first domesticated (as Bob C says) most likely to keep rats and mice out of the granaries. Egypt has pretty much always existed since they first became civilized. Their empire didn't last but the people and the cats didn't die out. <grin> BUT in body shape ferrets are certainly proportionally far longer than cats so <smile> SURE ferrets have been domesticated longer than cats... -bill -- bill and diane killian zen and the art of ferrets http://www.zenferret.com/ mailto:[log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 2586]