Afraid or Not?

I get an occasional email from California ferret owners afraid of being discovered. Do you let your neighbors know you have ferrets? The advantage is if one gets out the neighbors will know where to return it. The disadvantage is if you have bad neighbors.

The tragedy here is part of the fun is sharing ferrets. Ferrets, unlike cats, love new things. Like dogs they love to go places, meet new people, explore...

Back in 2000 I had nine armed agents break down my door to confiscate my ferrets (three San Diego police, three Fish and Game wardens and three Animal Control Officers) so I am very careful now. If I had ferrets, and I am not saying I do, they would be something like these guys:

From left to right are:

Augie - five years old. Bought him in a pet store while in Las Vegas for a wedding. He is a calm soul who when exiting his ferret nation cage likes to chew on the carpet.

Fausto - wandered into the Lemon Grove Rehabilitation Center. Largest ferret I've ever had, eats everything. Loves the dogs and prefers to be with them. He has some very odd dog behavior such as lying in the middle of the floor while the other ferrets go into the cabinets.

Quito - He was found by a co-worker's brother and they kept him for 18 months. Finally they decided ferrets weren't for them and since they said this on my birthday, and it was a terrible birthday (including getting laid off the next day) I kept him. He reminds me so much of a past ferret Raleigh, (the one I went to jail for) it is kind of spooky. Do they get reincarnated?

But of course these are just pretend ferrets.

My First Ferret Blog

The Internet has given us a lot of tools and advantages in our efforts to legalize ferrets in California. Since 2005 we've been publishing an ezine called CLIFFNotes - California Legalization Initiative For Ferrets (though no longer a ballot initiative, still a legalization initiative). If you aren't receiving it - sign up here.

Now it is time to try Blogging - something brand new to me.

The difference between a Blog and an ezine is that the Blog is meant to be more interactive, the ezine is meant to inform. Why can't we have both?

So wish me luck in trying to create a sucessful Blog just as we have created a sucessful ezine in CLIFFNotes.