How about apes?
Posted on 04/08/2002 1:19:00 PM PDT by scouse
Ferret ownership 'growing among young women'
New research claims ferrets are becoming a hit with young, single women.
A study by two psychology experts from the University of Warwick shows owners of the mammals are as likely to be female as male.
The researchers believe the shift towards more young people remaining childless and single has led to the growing popularity of ferrets and rabbits.
Dr June McNicholas and Dr Glyn Collis, surveyed 142 male and female ferret owners across the Midlands. Most owners were aged 26-45, while more than 77% were childless.
Nearly all - 82% - had not owned ferrets before but were attracted to them as suitable pets for their lifestyle.
Dr McNicholas said: "I would hesitate to say that ferrets are becoming the ultimate yuppie pet, but neither is the average female ferret owner Compo in trousers. Ferrets are ideal companions for people with full-time jobs who may not be able to look after a dog or cat.
"They are ideal for people living in towns or cities in flats because they don't mind being caged and they can live in a relatively small space. People tend to buy them in pairs so they can keep each other company, and I think most owners see them as an interactive pet that likes to bounce around the house."Dr McNicholas said owners listed playfulness and intelligence as the characteristics which attracted them to ferrets.
She said the study found that women owners are more likely to see ferrets as affectionate pets, while males are more likely to regard them as multi-purpose working and pet animals.
All owners handled and played with their ferrets daily, with 68% allowing them time in the family house. Among first time ferret owners, 90% said they envisaged they would always keep ferrets.
Data studied from the British Houserabbit Society showed that more than 88% of the organisation's 3,000 members were adults, suggesting they were no longer seen as a pet for children.
How about apes?
No because in the future, Apes will HAVE US as pets.
In the below case, that wouldn't be so bad.
Honest. Would you like to join? $300 a year and 100% of the net is donated to the homeless in St. Francis, WI in memory of all those Cudahy porkers.
put me off my feed since then when it comes to squirrels.
Believe it or not, I read about a guy who uses one to pull cable, or at least the string. He runs a cabling business, and when he needs to run cable under a raised floor, like in a computer room, or over a suspended ceiling, he'll take out a tile where the cable starts, and another one where he wants it to end up. Then he ties a string around the ferret's collar and puts him up in the ceiling (or under the floor) and holds a piece of strawberry poptart at the other end.
A few seconds later the ferret appears to get his piece of poptart, and the guy unties the string and ties it to his cable to pull back with the string.
i seen those suckers, came up from S.America didn't they?
ugly, look like hillary on a bad hair day.
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