Hi
 
Here in the UK ferrets are generally seen more as animals kept by old
men who keep them in a hutch at the end of the garden and use them for
rabbiting.  There are lots of misconceptions about what they might be
like (vicious, dirty, smelly, "feed 'em bread and milk or they'll turn
on you" etc) but exotic is not really one of them.  Keeping them indoors
like a cat or dog however, is seen as eccentric...
 
I'm preaching to the converted, I know, but the California thing totally
incomprehensible - what about dogs getting rabies/biting people?  Or
keeping/riding horses for that matter, I'm sure many more people have
died/got hurt as a result of that than ferret keeping!  My thoughts are
with you who live in places where ferrets are illegal.
 
C
[Posted in FML issue 4255]