Bob Church writes
>it dawned on me during my last trip that one (of many) reason women like
>ferrets is because they fill the arm like an infant.  ...  I noticed it
>when I saw a woman holding and ROCKING her baby, eh, ferret, in her arms
>while cooing at it.  I was frightened.
 
Boy are you easily frightened!  I don't know if it is a reason WHY women
like like ferrets, but it is true that if you put a sleeping ferret in a
woman's arms, she is likely to start instinctively shifting weight from one
foot to another in that special baby-rocking rhythm.  Even my daughter's 16
year old friend, who's never interacted with ferrets before, reacted that
way when I put a sleepy Caruso in her arms the other day.
 
Women will do this with ferrets, kittens, small dogs, bunnies, human
infants, anything that will lie still.  Heck I caught myself starting to do
it once when I was holding a stuffed animal!  Men will cuddle and caress,
but rarely rock.
 
Linda Iroff
Oberlin OH
[Posted in FML issue 3015]