What a great story. So much better than my animal in the backyard story of the week, which is that Toby (my dog) seems to have killed his second possum. (Or, possibly, a second possum has died since he came to live here and he's just the one dragging it into the middle of the lawn.) But on the other hand, the dog did get rid of my moles and chased the rat out of the potting shed.
I was actually once paid to be a ferret wrangler, a very very long time ago, when I worked at the local science center. I basically had to hold it up and talk about how it lived and ate, etc. and then let people pet it while keeping it from biting anyone. As my other demo job involved a 10-foot boa constrictor wrapped around me while I talked about how it could kill me, I much preferred the ferrets. They are very cute -- but even the nice ones do sometimes bite so the scruff of the neck advice is good. (This actually works on dogs, too -- at least in dogs, it works because that's how mother dogs pick up their puppies.)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2006-06-18 06:20 am (UTC)I was actually once paid to be a ferret wrangler, a very very long time ago, when I worked at the local science center. I basically had to hold it up and talk about how it lived and ate, etc. and then let people pet it while keeping it from biting anyone. As my other demo job involved a 10-foot boa constrictor wrapped around me while I talked about how it could kill me, I much preferred the ferrets. They are very cute -- but even the nice ones do sometimes bite so the scruff of the neck advice is good. (This actually works on dogs, too -- at least in dogs, it works because that's how mother dogs pick up their puppies.)