The animals are obviously very comfortable with their trainers. As
others have pointed out, ferrets have minds enough of their own that
if their living situation were a bad one with those people or if the
act was normally painful that they would run away after the drop
instead of staying with one person and heading toward the other.
Did something go wrong in the older video from 2000? It appears that
way. Was it corrected by 2008? It appears that way.
Is it entirely possible that the coat and the pelt are actually
artificial? It sure appears that way from the flexibility.
Are these people shorter than average, which reduces the drop? It
appears that way.
Now, something possibly went wrong vey publicly in 2000 (corrected
later) but the ferret still return to their trainers. How many of us
have had something go wrong with out ferrets such as them climbing to
a spot they should not have reached, or making a jump they should not
have made? Did your ferrets know that you were the one to return to
when that happened as these ferrets did? There seem to be more
similarities with good homes here than not in the way the ferrets go
to their people, and that level of comfort with their people says a
lot to me personally, but what do i know (?) since i only have 30
years of experience with ferrets...
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.htmlhttp://www.miamiferret.org/http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/http://www.ferretcongress.org/http://www.trifl.org/index.shtmlhttp://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)
[Posted in FML 7018]
