CBS morning news carried a segment on ferrets this morning.  Although it
started out fine, interviewing several pro-ferret folks in California,
it quickly degenerated into typical media hysteria.  The reporter
interviewed a girl who was apparently mauled by a ferret when she was 29
months old (her nose suffered extreme trauma) and interview someone from
the Humane Society who claimed that ferrets would kill birds and mammals
if they escaped and that the society has files on dozens of accounts of
ferrets attacking children.  (I have in my hand a list of 57 card-carrying
communists in the State Department!!!)  She also mentioned that the
Humane Society is opposed the legalization in CA and supports a ban
on ferrest in *all* states!
 
Also, the reported mentioned in passing that ferret activists claim there
is some doubt about the ferret attack on the girl mentioned in the piece.
Does anyone know what she was talking about?
 
While I'm at it I should introduce my guys.  I subscribed to the list
right after I bought them back in December.  I have two brown sables,
Mojo (male) and Pogo (female).  Both are 8 months old now.  Mojo is
getting huge (>3 lbs) and will eat anything that I shove in his face.
He has a tendency to follow me everywhere around my apartment and sit
at my feet.  Pogo on the other hand won't eat anything but ferret food
and tends to ignore most of the time.  She does have an odd obsession
with shampoo bottle tops.  She loves chewing on the ridges of the cap.
It may be fun for her but it makes a fingernails-on-the-chalkboard sound
that drives me up the wall.
 
eddie
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Ed McCreary
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[Posted in FML issue 1211]