Okay I haven't said anything about any of your posts yet Ed, but I just had to reply to your deal about AIDS seeing as you are obviously not well informed on the transmission of this disease from one person to another. Passing AIDS from one person to another by way of saliva is possible, but not very probable. First of all to give it to a ferret, the ferret would have had to have an open sore somewhere, either on it's body or in it's mouth. Now let's just say the ferret did have a sore, unless the owner was slobbering constantly right on this open sore the ferret won't have contracted the disease. It would take a very substansial amount of the infected persons saliva directly into the sore for the ferret to contract it. So no, I don't think there is any reason to tell the new owner that the person who owned it before died of the HIV/AIDS virus. [Posted in FML issue 2718]