It appears that the parents were not home: <http://www.examiner.net/features/x536826501/Grain-Valley-couple-arrested-charged-in-ferret-attack-on-child> The ferret's stomach contained blood but they do NOT say that they included any fingers or parts of fingers, so I have to wonder if the ferret was simply trying to lick the wounds clean. The swing had been removed which makes me wonder if the fingers were lost to the swing. Sukie (not a vet) Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html http://www.miamiferret.org/ http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html all ferret topics: http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html "All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow." (2010, Steve Crandall) On change for its own sake: "You can go really fast if you just jump off the cliff." (2010, Steve Crandall) [Posted in FML 7094]