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In article <CDqHyy.EJv@Cadence.COM> phz@cadence.com (Pete Zakel) writes:
>There is a group that is attempting to get the law against keeping ferrets
>in California changed.  I will try to remember to bring in the info about
>the group and post it (I left it at home).  This group will help with

Here's the info:

	The California Domestic Ferret Association
	P.O. Box 1868
	Healdsburg, CA  95448
	(707) 431-2277

They are afficliated with FURO (the international Ferret Unity and Registration
Organization).  Dues are $35.00 per year, which gets you their magazine
"The Weasel Help Monthly" (which is actually bimonthly).

They will NOT ask you if you have a ferret in California -- they are not
interested in turning you in.

I also got a "fact sheet", which states that domestic ferrets "cannot survive
for more than a few days on its own" and that "two recent U.S surveys
documented that no feral colonies exist in any of the 50 States."  Also, there
*is* a rabies vaccine for ferrets which has been licensed by the U.S. Dept.
of Agriculture (the IMRAB vaccine) on 7 February 1990.

Assemblyman Jan Goldsmith (R-Poway) will be introducing legislation in March
1994 to legalize pet ferrets in California.  Assemblyman Goldsmith can be
reached at 12307 Oak Knoll, Suite A, Poway, CA  92064, phone (619) 486-5191.

Pat Wright, a CDFA member, has formed Ferrets Anonymous, P.O. Box 3395,
San Diego, CA  92163, phone (619) 497-1985.

A lawsuit is being prosecuted against the state Department of Fish and Game
by the founder of CDFA and their chief counsel to obtain declaratory relief
through a judicial determination as to the domestic status of the domestic
ferret (whatever *that* means -- I need to brush up on my legalese), and
donations to help in the pro bono legal proceedings can be sent to address
listed above for the CDFA.

According to the sheet I got the last bit of information from, "domestic
ferrets are currently legal to possess in 46 states; of the four states that
have existing bans, two of them, Michigan and Massachusetts, have pending
legislation to legalize ferrets that was introduced by their respective Fish
and Game Departments.  Only California and Hawaii still persist in the
maintaining of the ban."


-Pete Zakel
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