Re: FERRETS: Need advice DESPERATELY!

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From: Hiroki Morizono
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 23:37

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James Grove (grapes@leland.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
[M-x kill-region]
: Help!  I'm desperately in need of advice!
: 
: I live in the Midwest, and will be moving to California on a 
: semi-permanent basis around the beginning of October.  I have 
: been very interested in FERRETS for the past several years, 
: but the time was never right to purchase one.  But just 
: yesterday I was in a pet shop, with the ferret I wanted 
: already picked out.  I was looking at the other necessities I 
: had to buy, when a friend I had brought with me found in a 
: book that FERRETS ARE ILLEGAL IN CALIFORNIA!!!
: 
: I called the humane society and the Fish and Game Department 
: in the Bay Area, and the latter organization told me in no 
: uncertain terms that "Ferrets are not native to California 
: and eat birds and small animals," so they are not allowed.
: 
: WHAT SHOULD I DO???  I REALLY WANT A FERRET!!!

Get a chinchilla instead? :-)
They croak if they get too hot, don't eat birds or small animals,
and you only need 300 or so to make a coat that you could sell on
Rodeo drive.
hiroki

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