Hi you guys,
 
Just wanted to say quickly please be VERY careful with kids around them
ferrets!
 
I always did believe it is NOT a good idea to let your or anyone else s
kids (maybe even older than 6 which is what I read is the minimum age
recommended) play with ferrets!  Even when you are standing right there,
either kid or ferret (most likely the poor ferret) can really get hurt!
 
I mean, if and when I have a kid of my own I don t plan on dumping Logan
nor Leeloo even though I know how tough raising a kid is (was a teacher and
even live-in nanny for years, plus being in the midst of babies, nieces,
relatives children, friends kids etc.) but I sure will try to manage
child and ferret with proper care and enough attention (just explainin my
personal thoughts on the subject, don t mean to upset anyone who had or
have to treat their ferrets differently or to give them up cause people
and situations are different)
 
So I m here to say this (to be VERY careful can t stress it enough!) is
yeah, personal experience but not from a kid of my own.  I had some
visitors at my place two of them being very small kids (3 and 4!) whom I
used to take care and who I love and kids that CAN be very behaved and
who are used to dealing with animals (they even have a small dog), and of
course they wanted to see the ferrets and I was STUPID to let them out of
their room (I should have at least locked them in the cage and let them pet
them through the bars TOPS!), and it was a nightmare, ferret running around
escaping screaming kids (I mean, the kids FREAKED OUT!  never seen them act
like that before) and them trying to pick up the ferrets and me running
after them taking poor Logan and Leeloo from them and showing in my hands
how you re supposed to pick them up without hurting them as well as trying
to explain some stuff (but hey, my niece s 4 and speaks like an adult but
not all kids that age will understand, listen nor care if they might hurt
or scare the poor little creature or even that it might bite them!).
 
To keep it short, no ferrets were hurt thank God (I took them away pretty
quick and closed the room) but it was really a bad experience I intend in
never let happen again!  (all my fault really) Poor babies (ferrets) must
have been pretty scared and mad too, even worse, maybe worried because
afterwards I left with the visiting family so the last Logan and Leeloo saw
of me was on the other side of their door standing next to the freakin
kids!  (so I wonder if they were worried that the small-hyper-humans/trolls
ate their human LOL)
 
I ve had another 4 year old at my place before and he didn t ask to pick
the ferrets up, just to look at them and just pet Leeloo softly on the
head, but even when the kid is like that one, I just wanted to let you guys
know that no matter how much you think you know the child and you standing
right next to him/her, one false movement and he/she can step, squeeze,
really hurt the poor ferret!
 
Ferrets are just NOT for kids, really.  (and so aren t many other animals
too)
 
Hug to you all,
 
Chris and the traumatized Logan + Leeloo (not really, we just went for a
looong walk on the park and boy did we have fun diggin'!!!) :-D
[Posted in FML issue 3511]