Cathy/Trina,

I'm not surprised that you'd take your time and try to push emotion
aside to think the information over that you gathered about ball
pythons. Personally, i am glad that you apologized to the young man.
He just seemed like someone who honestly loves animals and as I
said, I do personally know how reptile peoples feelings get hurt
and literally ever day. Even men (they tell me).

I'm glad you are not apologizing for being so careful and having high
standards in regards to adoption.

Now that I myself have sat back and thought things out, and gave the
most balanced and careful information to you that I could, I wanted to
give you and others my very personal opinion. Probably my biggest fault
is I am overly cautious. I want to be careful that I don't misinform
people. Because of that I do hold back on some information and almost
always with hold personal opinion. Sometimes any opinion. Put on top of
that the fact that I want everyone to feel comfortable and to be happy,
I dance around subjects. Way. Too. Much.

So to the point now, once again I dance around! My own, personal
opinion is that a ball python would never hurt a ferret outside of the
scenario than if you have a unique individual and one that is cornered.
And then, like I said the bites aren't bad. On the flip side, I cannot
assure to a snake owner that a ferret would never, unintentionally or
not, hurt their ball python. Despite all of that, I feel it's very safe
to own a ball python with a ferret in the house, much safer than with
many other types of pets. Like I said, that is not "official" advice.
Thats just my personal advice coming from "Wolfy".

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