If you saw the CBS This Morning program this past Wednesday (5/31), you saw
the hatchet job they did on ferrets.  If you didn't see it, they paraded out
nine-year-old Michelle Bowers, whose nose was bitten off by a ferret when she
was just 29 days old.  Then a Rachel Lamb of the Humane Society of the U.S.
stated her opposition to the California legalization movement, cited the
"files of ferret bite reports" she has, and declared she would try to stop
ownership in other states if she could.  In closing. CBS reporter Hattie
Kauffman then regurgitated the HSUS fears that escaped ferrets could "pose a
real danger to small mammals and birds."
 
If anyone wishes to express their opinions to this report, here are the
contacts:
 
Hattie Kauffman, reporter
Andy Jones, segment producer
Ingrid Cipriani-Matthes, senior producer
CBS This Morning
CBS Broadcast Center
524 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
tel. 212-975-2824
fax 212-925-2115
 
Paul Irwin, executive director
(e-mail:  [log in to unmask])
Rachel Lamb, companion animals
(e-mail:  [log in to unmask])
Humane Society of the United States
2100 L Street N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037
tel 202-452-1100
fax 202-778-6132
[Posted in FML issue 1212]