I'm a Pediatric ICU nurse.  I see damaged kids all the time.  Too
frequently, the damage was inflicted by humans.  I've seen severe trauma
caused by dogs and horses, but never by a ferret.
 
A double-standards exists for ferret bites and scratches.  Consider the
outcome of a vicious, unprovoked horse bite on a young man.  The horse was
quarantined for 2 weeks.  That's all.  I can't help thinking that if it had
been a ferret, the ferret would have been put to death.
 
What is it that makes society react to ferrets this way?  Is it lack of
knowledge, or what?
 
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Charissa Ebersole
Toledo, OH 43606
 
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[Posted in FML issue 2744]