A while back I wrote about the thorny issue of ferret moisturising. You can see the history here. http://laurasplog.blogspot.com/2006/07/flaky-ferrets.html I recommend you read this before proceeding.
Anyway, I was running a Google search at work for totally un-ferret related reasons (my job, whilst varied, has yet to include the moisturising of ferrets. Perhaps I shall bring this up at my next development chat), when the third or fourth hit returned pointed me to this site:
Modern Ferret Magazine. Let me just say that again. Modern. Ferret. Magazine. This, I imagine, has an entirely different readership to Traditional Ferret Mazagine and Historic Ferret Quarterly.
Modern Ferret is mostly concerned with issues facing today's ferrets. Namely (and these are genuinely covered by past issues): A Day of Ferrets and Fashion, Ferret Medical Topics with Dr. Bruce Williams, Hershey's Orthopedic Ordeal: Helping a Ferret With a Broken Leg and many, many more.
In teeny tiny print at the bottom of the Modern Ferret homepage, there is a slightly worrying statement. "Modern Ferret supports the legalization of ferrets in New York City."
What the fuck? Ferrets are illegal in New York City? How on earth do they enforce this? And why? I can't imagine a bunch of ferrets - whether moisturised or no - terrorising tourists on Broadway or bringing traffic to a screeching halt on Lexington. And I can't believe they're a threat to indigenous wildlife. If an officer suspects you of harbouring a ferret, does he need a ferret warrant before he searches your apartment for discarded bottles of ferret moisturiser?
The Internet is sometimes a scary place.
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