My querries to the owner of ferret Scarlet:
 
1.) Did Scarlet actually have a medically proven case of ECE?
 
2.) Was the kit who was the alleged "carrier" of ECE proven to be actually
"infected" with ECE?
 
End of querries about Scarlet and her ECE.
 
On another subject:
 
[log in to unmask] writes of her ferret "Sable" as having bitten her
infant and son and that she got rid of "Sable" by turning her into a local
shelter.  Crowclan also writes that ferrets and babies can reside in the
same house.  Just because I had one bad ferret doesn't mean that (sic) all
ferrets are bad around children (does she mean babies when she writes
"children?") The baby is never never left on the floor alone when the
ferrets are out.
 
Based on what she has related to us that, in effect, not all ferrets are
"bad" and that she is yet afraid or at least apphensive about allowing her
remaining ferrets free access to her baby (children?) on the floor, I have
but this simple question to ask:
 
Why, if she got rid of her one "bad" ferret is she still afraid to allow
her remaining ferrets free access to her baby on the floor?  If she got rid
on the one "bad" ferret - Sable by name - why is she still afraid of her
remaining ferrets possibly biting her baby?
 
Please, somebody, explain that logic to me.  I just don't understand.  Come
on now; you reading this.  Can you explain?
 
And while you're at it, would you like to explain to me your ideas of why
ferrets do "bite" infants?  Surely some of you must have some thoughts on
this very, very important behavior aspect of the supposedly "domesticated"
ferret, an animal that is considered to be still a "primitive" creature
along with all the other members of the family Mustelidae.  (The otter is
excepted - don't know why?)
 
Edward Lipinski
 
Ferret Endowment for Research, Rehabilitation, Education & Training
Society, North West, USA
 
Contrary to the idiotic accusations coming my way, I certify that I am not
a secret Gestapo agent for the California Fish and Wildlife org in spite of
the fact that my motto is "Frettchenvergnuegen!"
[Posted in FML issue 2742]