LA - Parents Sleep As Pup Chews Off Baby's Toes
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I'm going to cast my vote that it wasn't the puppy OR the ferret - if the parents were home.Jade said:
Reading between the lines, it sounds like the ferret belonged to the guy and the dog belonged to the girl. I think it's a real shame that these "parents" are blaming each other (or each other's pets) when their child just underwent something so traumatic. I have 4 ferrets myself and yes, they can bite. Actually chewing off toes though, don't think so. My ferrets are more prone to "attacking" inanimate objects, like shoes or rubber tires, not actual skin.
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Same note with my ferret - but if it's wiggling, it will play rather aggressively. It wouldn't do it out of the want to eat - lord knows ferrets are picky eaters, but if it was enjoyment... maybe.Melisinde said:
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My husband and I have a 10 month old and we would most definately hear our baby crying and did when he was one month old also. It's easy to know when your infant is crying in pain too. There's no way they could have, in their right minds, slept through an infant crying in pain.
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I seem to remember my grandad would turn a bunch of ferrets loose in his warehouse, to kill the rats. Not a pet I would want around a vulnerable sleeping infant. I once had a gerbil that chewed so incessantly on the metal bars of its cage that I couldn't even sleep.
The real fault here is on the parents no matter which animal did it. Animals are animals. They have instincts and can be unpredictable (not that humans can't). These people should have been getting acclimated to a new baby, not starting a menegerie, imo. My parents had a German Shepherd when I was born and when I began walking it knocked me down all the time. They got rid of it immediately.
Priorities.
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The real fault here is on the parents no matter which animal did it. Animals are animals. They have instincts and can be unpredictable (not that humans can't). These people should have been getting acclimated to a new baby, not starting a menegerie, imo. My parents had a German Shepherd when I was born and when I began walking it knocked me down all the time. They got rid of it immediately.
Priorities.
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My children had every pet imaginable it seems. From dogs, cats, hamsters, turtles, rabbits, hermit crabs,horses, fish and my son had a ferret named "Scrat". This pet was the only one that was totally aggressive. It would attack and sink its big teeth right in without warning no matter how much love and attention we gave him.
I am the biggest animal lover ever but this pet I did not trust and began to dislike which is very odd for me. We sold him back to the pet store.
They also can do tremendous damage to furniture and carpeting etc with their incessant chewing.
Ocean
I am the biggest animal lover ever but this pet I did not trust and began to dislike which is very odd for me. We sold him back to the pet store.
They also can do tremendous damage to furniture and carpeting etc with their incessant chewing.
Ocean
Parents plead guilty. . .
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/12/22/babys.toes.ap/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/12/22/babys.toes.ap/index.html
The animals will be offered for adoption rather than be euthanized, Bossier Parish District Attorney Schuyler Marvin told the news station.Pandora said:
all i can say is amen....there is a higher power out there....i know here the poor pup would be put to sleep....i wonder can i adopt from indiana
I am going to recant a little bit...
Maybe a ferret could chew off the toes BUT it would take a very LONG time and be a very untrained ferret.
Like all pets ferrets must be trained.
If they are .... They do not bite.
eta Oceanblueeyes???
I think your confusing what a ferret does naturally as aggression.
As babies they bite and play with each other ... its how they learn.
They can be taught not to and to do so is not aggression but them playing.
Ferrets take a lot of training and time.... I would not recommend one for any young child.
Maybe a ferret could chew off the toes BUT it would take a very LONG time and be a very untrained ferret.
Like all pets ferrets must be trained.
If they are .... They do not bite.
eta Oceanblueeyes???
I think your confusing what a ferret does naturally as aggression.
As babies they bite and play with each other ... its how they learn.
They can be taught not to and to do so is not aggression but them playing.
Ferrets take a lot of training and time.... I would not recommend one for any young child.
what you say is very true but when they think you are a ferret and have tough skin they will treat you like a ferret. thinking of how these people were raising their daughter i bet they were not traing the pets anyhowAmraann said:
Agreed!!!
These people were not exactly the paragon of parenting......
I dont see either the puppy or the ferret causing this in short time.
I really just find it hard to believe either pet did it.
Not the Two YO either....
I really believe something happend to this baby not being said.
Something more sinister then a pet.
WHy else are the teeth marks not being traced??
These people were not exactly the paragon of parenting......
I dont see either the puppy or the ferret causing this in short time.
I really just find it hard to believe either pet did it.
Not the Two YO either....
I really believe something happend to this baby not being said.
Something more sinister then a pet.
WHy else are the teeth marks not being traced??