This newsgroups FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) is posted roughly once 
a month, and goes out again with this blink. It contains the newsgroup's 
charter, information on quarantine and other issues of general interest 
to pet-owners in the UK, and contact details and URLs for various 
animal-related organisations and sites.

I would greatly appreciate help on revising the sections on quarantine
and the Balai directive in the FAQ, since they are well out of date and
I'm not expert enough to revise them, or be sure that they can be
deleted.

The FAQ is currently around 900 lines and will probably get larger as
more information is added, although I attempt to keep it as small as
possible. If you don't want to read it, set your killfile to spot
uk.rec.pets.misc FAQ in the subject of the message; that should stop the
FAQ and any follow-up messages. Or kill on file size, nothing else
remotely near this size should be posted here routinely.

You are also strongly advised to set your killfile to reject 
cross-posted messages, since this newsgroup unfortunately suffers from a 
good deal of cross-posted trolling.

Separate messages about the pilot scheme for taking pets to Europe from 
the UK, and about importing reptiles into the UK, are also posted 
monthly.

I'm always grateful for comments on the contents of the FAQ, new
addresses and URLs, etc. It isn't possible to go into much detail on any
specific species in the FAQ; that's what web sites are for. If there are
any other _general_ issues that might affect many UK pet owners I'd like
to add them.

-- 
Marcus L. Rowland
"Boy... _These_ things are a cinch!"
[God makes the snake - Gary Larson]
http://www.forgottenfutures.com/
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/forgottenfutures