>From:    Uedson Ribeiro Leite Junior <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: FERRET WITH HUNGRY
>What animal i will put with my ferret to be a friend?  I tried with
>a small chicken.  He eat the chicken.  What is the problem?
 
Problem?  What problem?  Sounds like perfectly ordinary ferret behavior!
 
Did anyone else get a good belly-laugh from this?
 
Sigh.  Look, Uedson, Ferrets eat *meat*.  They will play with other animals,
but only animals that can also play a bit rough, as in wrestling,
playbiting, like that.  What happened is, the ferret tried to playbite the
chicken, the chicken freaked out, the ferret got a real nice taste of bird,
and the rest is simply fine dining.
 
You might try a kitten.  My ferrets raised a baby cat, and when they would
play-bite it, the cat would bite right back...they were best buddies.  See
how it acts around somebody else's small cat first...some ferrets just don't
get along with other animals, but it's pretty rare.  Or mebbe try a second
ferret.
[Posted in FML issue 1561]