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Joe Ferret Thanks, Courtney and Joey for the video

The Next Fish and Game Commission Meeting Seems a lot Sooner!

October 19th and 20th in Eureka Perhaps I've been a little too optimistic or simplistic. They aren't going to decide to legalize ferrets at their Oct meeting. The California Fish and Game Commission is going to decide whether to "Grant Further Consideration" to our request, through a formal petition to remove ferrets from the prohibited species list. Or they might say "No, leave things as they are."



If they do vote to "grant further consideration" they will lay out the procedures of what we need to do next. Mostly likely they will publish a "go to notice" meaning anyone interested in the subject needs to step up. The good news - I don't think there is any opposition. We outlived them all!



About a week prior to the meeting, so that would be 12th (probably late in the day) they will publish the meeting documents. And that should include the staff recommendation to either grant further consideration, or we'll see an ugly word "DENY".



I'm 80% expecting to see "Grant Further Consideration." If we do see that ugly word, "DENY" it could be because of some stupid technicality. Or it could be that the Fish and Game Commission is still playing games and not really interested is us ferret folks.



We have a very solid Environmental Report. We have a preliminary report and CEQA report. All of Dr. Graening's (the author of the study) notes and documentation were put on a thumb drive and delivered to the Commission staff. We should be Golden,but never underestimate the ability of things to go wrong.



Note, we are having a ferret get together the night before the meeting. All the details are here.



And Courtney, do you have another ferret in the bottom right hand of that screen grab? Or just a very realistic stuffed one? Below, a few more photos came in for our PowerPoint presentation that I'll use in the background when I make a presentation to the Commission. Here is the latest version. If anyone can add the graphics and transitions on Monday, let me know. I need to get it up to the Commission pretty quickly. The link is to a pdf file, the PowerPoint file is too large to upload. 2017 Legalize Ferrets Calendar View and order here Prices start at $12 and go down from there. In Conclusion Thank you everyone for your support. I hope we have a good turn out in Eureka and things go well I think it will. The time is right for ferret legalization.



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Our mailing list is now about 9,300. These are all very clean emails and mailing addresses. We've been working so long and so hard. The end result, we are in great shape. The Fish and Game Commission could really make this easy for us, but even if they don't, we have a lot of fight and resources left in us.



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