My wife is a science teacher, so we have all sorts of pets.  Of course, our
"primary" pets are our two ferrets, but we also have gerbils, a tarantula,
and some hissing cockroaches.  In our experience with gerbils and ferrets,
the ferrets never want to eat us after we play with the gerbils.  Our female
has a tendancy to get on top of the gerbil cage and scratch at it if we let
her, and she once tried to bite a gerbil (my wife let them get a little too
close :( ) Of course, we may have relatively calm ferrets.  But, they are
never more "fond" of us once we handle the gerbils.
 
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| David C. Bouchard             | "All my Life I've been one     |
| Computer Science / Physics    |   who scans the horizon..."    |
| Oklahoma State University     |       -Brooks Williams         |
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[Posted in FML issue 1912]