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Right after I first got Starbuck, I had cable put in. The cable guys were
really nice and one of them pointed to Starbuck's cage and said "Does she
bite?" Before I could answer, the other one said "If it has teeth, it
bites." If you attempt to hurt or attack any animal, it will bite. I used
to have a German Shepherd that was the sweetest dog in the world. She bit a
3-year-old child once because the child hurt her the way young kids
do-without meaning to, and extremely painfully. Fortunately the parents
were "dog people" and understood it wasn't her fault. But the point is, any
animal bites when it feels threatened.
On a slightly related note, the reason to have an indoor ferret vaccinated
against rabies (I was wondering this too; my vet explained it to me) is that
if your ferret bites someone, if it hasn't been vaccinated it will be
killed. This happened in the pet store where I got Starbuck; a woman picked
up a sleeping baby by THE TAIL and then when the ferret bit her she called
animal control and forced them to put the ferret down.
-Kate & Starbuck, the energizer ferret
[Posted in FML issue 2188]
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