spangler@kvue.UUCP (Lance Spangler) (03/17/85)
Please forgive me if this has been posted before, but I'm interested in finding out about obtaining a ferret as a household pet. We presently live in an apartment. Cats are out since I'm highly allergic to them. Oh, I should add that we already have one unusual pet...a Central American Tarantula. (She is quite friendly, and very low maintenance) I am most concerned about (1) health & vaccinations (2) their digging/chewing habits and (3) their odor. Please mail responses to me directly and if there is enough interest, I will summarize to the net. UUCP: ihnp4!ut-sally!kvue!spangler Lance Spangler Telco: 512-459-1433 (Pvt. biz line) Senior Producer Telco: 512-346-4447 (Home / evenings) KVUE Television Austin, Texas The only thing we have to ((P. O. Box 9927)) fear is computing itself! :-)) zip------> 78766
chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) (03/21/85)
In article <158@kvue.UUCP> spangler@kvue.UUCP (Lance Spangler) writes: >Please forgive me if this has been posted before, but I'm interested >in finding out about obtaining a ferret as a household pet. We presently >live in an apartment. I've known a couple of people who had ferrets as pets (an advantage of once working for a vet-- you see everything, eventually...). Intersting beasties, but I don't know that they would go well into an apartment. They like to romp, in fact one of the ferrets I knew got walked like your average every day dog. Assuming, of course, you like dogs that can rip apart most small to medium sized mammals... *grin* One thing to note about ferrets: many places, such as california, rate them as an exotic species. This means that you need special permits from everybody to keep it starting with the state fish and game, and ending up with variances from the city on their pet requirements and leash laws-- getting all of these is non-trivial, and especially in the case of something like a zoning variance or pet variance from the city, all you need is a single idiotic neighbor to throw it in the works (I saw that happen once with a racoon-- 7 months of paperwork, they had the bugger for three months, and lost it to a single complaint by a neighbor, despite the fact that 8 of the other 10 neighbors around them petitioned FOR it... sigh... ) chuq -- Chuq Von Rospach, National Semiconductor {cbosgd,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA Be seeing you!