Chip, our shelter's web master has added the latest version of "The Ferret Owner's Manual" to the Web site. The URL is: http://www.worldpath.net/~chip/fert-man.html I'll repeat the offer to anyone who might be interested. You have my permission to copy the file, print it out and make as many copies as you wish to distribute to whomever might benefit. You can give it to pet stores to hand out with every ferret that they sell, shelters can do the same; you can give it to ferret owners whom you know. In fact I'd love to see every new (and old) ferret owner have a copy. The only thing I ask is that no changes be made to it, and that no profit be made from it (although it's all right to recover copying cost, If you'd like). For those of you not familiar with it, it's about 33 pages long, filled with as many bits of information on care, training, grooming, health tips, etc., that I've been able to gather. We go over it line by line with each prospective adopter at our shelter, and each goes home with a copy. Some of our local pet stores hand it out, many of the local humane shelters hand it out. Even some vets hand it out. It's being translated into Portuguese by a wonderful woman in Brazil for her Web site. You're more than welcome to use it. Dick B. The 4 Li'l Paws Ferret Shelter [Posted in FML issue 2709]