>For example, 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.  Women hold
>them like babies, talk to them like babies, pamper them like babies.  I've
>even seen women BURP ferrets like babies.  I've always known that, but the
>idea that ferrets fit on the arm like a baby (that is, they are baby
>length) was a new one.  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."
 
What's wrong with THAT!  I do that all the time with Patch and Lily.
Holding them in my arms, rocking them, telling them what good ferrets they
are, what pretty ferrets they are.  I tug gently at their paws and call
them my paw-paw boy and my paw-paw girl.  Sometimes I put them over my
shoulder and pat their backs gently and pet them and tell them I love them.
I see nothing wrong with that!
 
Ok, ok, I know I have a very bad case of "wanna-baby." Treating Patch and
Lily like babies holds that desire in check.
 
Deb "I wanna-baby" Adams
And, paw-paw Patch and paw-paw Lily
[Posted in FML issue 3015]