>From:    John Rich <[log in to unmask]>
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>Myself, living in a small, 'controlled', housing park makes it impossible
>to even try to have prey around for food, hell, the owner wants $5 per
>ferret as is!, God forbid a neighbor sees me feeding natural!....whereas
>in Texas, Utah, England(rural), Australia, and all the other countries
>with more open space, & less people per square mile than my State of New
>Jersey, have more 'room' to have "out buildings" for what is needed!
 
 ...The devil?  I honestly don't mean to be offensive, but do you
have any idea what living in this country is actually like?  I mean,
outbuildings?  ^^;
 
You do realise that the majority of Australians live near the coastline,
in ordinary old suburban environments?  My husband and I rent a
two-bedroom duplex with a decently-sized living room and kitchen with
combined dining area, with a small sunroom/laundry extension out front
(our ferrets sleep in the laundry).  Quite spacious for two people, but
certainly no extraneous /buildings/ - we don't even have a carspace
(luckily we don't have a car either).  And we're not even in a
decently-sized city - just a relatively quiet suburb near the Port
Kembla steelworks*.
 
My point is, just because we have all this space, doesn't mean everybody
has lots of space.  Huge amounts of it are uninhabitable (at least in a
practical sense and by humans) for a start, and even though plenty of
space is /available/, it's rarely affordable.  In rural areas, sure -
but in suburban areas, like for the majority?  No ^^;
 
Anyway, as far as ferrets go, I'm just saying that tremendous amounts of
the population here (especially singles and students) still rent small,
controlled (strata-managed... ugh!) places just like yours.  We were
lucky enough to find an agent willing to allow our ferrets as it was (we
were almost homeless for a while there - we literally found our new place
the day before we had to move out of the old one).  Most apartments
available in the suburbs don't allow any pets at all.
 
(*Makes for gorgeous industrial-post-apocalyptic looking sunsets when the
fires are going - I'm told they're like something out of Blade Runner.)
 
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