The Waiting Continues

You can see we're checking off the weeks until Judge Hon. Shelleyanne W. L. Chang hears our writ of mandate.

We're asking the Court to require the California Fish and Game Commission to complete its consideration of our petition for a regulation change. The Commission has parked the petition in indefinite limbo, effectively preventing us from getting a final decision that can be challenged in court.

And ultimately, that is the fight we want to have: whether California can continue its arbitrary classification of the domestic ferret as a wild and detrimental animal.

The only thing that has changed lately is my growing confidence that we're going to survive this challenge and that Fish and Game will, under court supervision and legal guidelines, finally have to determine whether domestic ferrets really are wild animals.

Good luck with that.

Stay tuned for Sunday's CLIFFNotes. Instead of talking so much about the writ—unless something happens—I have a lot to say about Simon's dramatic rescue from a fireplace insert.