(January 23, 2012 at 5:31 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: Am I evil in finding the cancerous tendencies of ferrets to be interesting? A cursory glance through the incidents of "ferrets" and "cancer" on Google would suggest the chances to developing cancer in ferrets to be rather high.
I wonder if some aspect of their functioning contributes to such on a repeatable basis.
The thought does occur to me that keeping animals alive longer than they survive in the wild would reveal the unstable, long term consequences of their particular construction.
Were that the case, that living longer for a pet provokes a damaging, painful disease, what would your protocols for handling them be, for their end-of-life?
What would the 'right thing to do' be?
You are correct, especially in Marshalls ferrets. i think it has to do with lots of inbreeding of their stock.
The right thing to do would be to show your children that we all must do what we can to keep fighting for life, even if it is our pets.
