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- From: afdenis@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Stephen Dennison)
- Subject: Ferrets that know their names... was Re: tavi bear (ferrets)
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- Date: 23 Jan 1993 23:12 EST
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- In article <urf.727166554@sw2001>, urf@icl.se (Urban F) writes...
- >christin@cae.wisc.edu (Christine Haas) writes:
- >
- >>Really?? I have never met a ferret who really cared or noticed what
- >>you called him/ her. The only word my ferrets recognize is the sound
- >>of shaking the raison container while saying "Raisons! Raisons!"
- >>and I think that's more the tone of voice I use over the words.
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- Both Bear and Sasha knew their names, at least that's how it appeared to me.
- I used to hold them together and, when I was talking to one, the other one
- pretty much ignored me, but when I used a name, the *named* ferret usually
- responded with a lick to my nose. I tried not to use their names right
- after they licked their butts, though. :-)
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- -- Stephen
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- Humans --
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- Beings stupid enough to create their own monsters, and then
- curse their luck when they run into them.
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