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From: jcc@uvaee.UUCP (Jay Colognori)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: House Weasels
Message-ID: <361@uvaee.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 11:08:35 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 23 11:08:35 1985
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In article <981@mhuxt.UUCP> evans@mhuxt.UUCP (crandall) writes:
>According to our ferrets' vet they need both distempers, rabies, and parvo
>vaccines.  All vaccines have to be dead ones which were not bred in mustelids
>(in this case read that as bred in ferrets or mink).  


I have raised two ferrets, and I fail to see the need to give a ferret
which is to be kept in the house a rabies vaccine. As long as they
do not get out, they cannot contract rabies, can they? There is the
possibility that they could contract the disease from the vaccine, so
I cannot justify giving them one. Can anyone out there tell me if I
am mistaken?

                                    - Jay