The latest from LegalizeFerrets.org



Download those Legalize Ferrets Petitions! View this email in your browser Vol 10 No 48 - November 29th, 2015

Joe Ferret

Appeal Goes Out to Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee

Click here to read the letter we sent to Assemblyman Levine Please add your voice to this appeal! A written request is the most effective and persuasive way to make our point!



Assemblyman Marc Levine

State Capitol

P.O. Box 942849

Room 2141

Sacramento, CA 94249-0010

Tel: (916) 319-2010

Fax: (916) 319-2110



Click here for a sample letter.

This is Really Important We were hoping to earn our way into a hearing with enough signatures but that is highly unlikely seeing that we have 6,480 signatures and need, 91,470 to trigger legislative hearings.



So perhaps we can snatch victory out of the jaws and defeat and persuade Assemblyman Levine to grant us a hearing. Think of the impact we could have, presenting facts and data on ferrets in California. It may be been done in the in 2003 by Senator Dede Alpert but I only recall very one sided conversations where the issue wasn't taken seriously.



You can fax your letter in. I'd really like Assemblyman Levine to get a number of faxes by Monday morning. Petitioning at PetSmart in Chula Vista

I spent three hours on Saturday in front of the PetSmart at 1840 Main Court in Chula Vista. This is where I had previously asked the manager if I could set up and got a rather unpleasant "no."



I have received nothing but No's from every pet store I asked these past two weeks. So time to go anyway and use my rights under Robbins v Pruneyard Shopping Center.



Shortly after setting up a manager came outside, rather indignant, demanded I leave or they would call the police. "Call the police" I said. "My lawyer told me not to leave until the police tell me to go so we know who to serve legal papers on."



She came back shortly thereafter and said I do indeed have a right to be there but I can't approach the customers. She was very pleasant. I asked her if she had any complaints about me and she said "no." And I don't bother people who don't wish to be bothered. And a number of people are happy that I'm there and ask to sign the petition.



I got 47 signatures, rather slow. But I show the colors. A lot of people see the "Legalize Ferrets" banner. I over hear people saying "I want a ferret" but when I ask them to sign they wave me off. I don't get that.



Then as I was preparing to leave (which always seems to stimulate signers) a woman came up and said her friend had a ferret but it got out three weeks ago in Lemon Grove in Military Housing. My heart sank. "Is it this one?" I asked pulling out my phone. She didn't know. She called her friend who texted me the picture of their ferret - and it was indeed Birdie who've I became so attached to.



I really feared some loser was going to show up at my door and demand their ferret back. But he showed up in uniform, paid me the $100 I spent on her for veterinary care and took her home. My table at the Chula Vista PetSmart. Quick call the police! The real owner of this ferret. I felt relieved, looks like he's up to it!