Okay, pretty much every day for the past two weeks my Google alert on "ferret +pet" has returned a new news agency covering this insane story from Missouri
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A ferret injuring 1 or two fingers, I could believe pretty easily, animals get excited, and can chomp too hard without meaning to. But 7 implies... managing to get all the way through one hand and starting on the other - all without the child screaming loud enough for the parents to notice and come running?
And chewed *off*? Like, I know baby bones are softer than grown up bones, but (and I know jack shit about ferrets) I have a hard time believing they could get through bones seven times.
Now, if we were talking *rabbits*, I might believe it (I've been attacked by rabbits before, they can be vicious little fuckers with strong teeth). Still... i'm highly inclined to believe they injured their own child and blamed the ferret.
Yeah, apparently the kid now has two thumbs and most of a pinkie. So... the ferret differentiated between thumb and finger and left the thumb on the one hand? WTF
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I don't suspect the parents were being negligent, I'm positive of it. How the FUCK could they not know what was happening instantly? I don't care how tired you are, that baby had to be screaming its head off. Someone who isn't off their ass on something will notice.
Unless, of course, the damage was done in one bite... if f-e-r-r-e-t is being spelled p-i-t-b-u-l-l.
See, being practically FROM Missouri, I keep hearing about this, but again, I've seen no proof either.
On the other hand, everything I've heard says it was a tiny infant. And yes, while ferret and infant should never meet, the ferrets I've met would be perfectly capable of at the very least doing serious damage to baby fingers. Don't know if they'd be able to get seven fingers off, but at the very least some damage done.
On to the third hand, what kind of fucking IDIOT puts an infant and a ferret together unsupervised? Seriously, if you have one or the other theoretically you've done some sort of research on SOMETHING. *grumble*
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A ferret injuring 1 or two fingers, I could believe pretty easily, animals get excited, and can chomp too hard without meaning to. But 7 implies... managing to get all the way through one hand and starting on the other - all without the child screaming loud enough for the parents to notice and come running?
And chewed *off*? Like, I know baby bones are softer than grown up bones, but (and I know jack shit about ferrets) I have a hard time believing they could get through bones seven times.
Now, if we were talking *rabbits*, I might believe it (I've been attacked by rabbits before, they can be vicious little fuckers with strong teeth). Still... i'm highly inclined to believe they injured their own child and blamed the ferret.
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The child would have cried. Hell, I can remember crying when baby Eggo took good nip and held on for a bit.
What are the chances that this is neglect, both of the ferret and the child? :(
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Unless, of course, the damage was done in one bite... if f-e-r-r-e-t is being spelled p-i-t-b-u-l-l.
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On the other hand, everything I've heard says it was a tiny infant. And yes, while ferret and infant should never meet, the ferrets I've met would be perfectly capable of at the very least doing serious damage to baby fingers. Don't know if they'd be able to get seven fingers off, but at the very least some damage done.
On to the third hand, what kind of fucking IDIOT puts an infant and a ferret together unsupervised? Seriously, if you have one or the other theoretically you've done some sort of research on SOMETHING. *grumble*
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