A 4-month-old baby boy lost seven fingers after being attacked by his family's pet ferret. It's an unnerving story, and as Grain Valley Police Chief Aaron Ambrose told the Star: "This is awful -- a very, very unfortunate incident."
I'll resist the urge to rail against the parents because we still don't know exactly how the ferret got so close to the infant. What we do know is that the boy's parents reportedly heard him scream Monday around 2:30 a.m. They rushed into the room where he was sleeping and found him missing all but his thumbs and part of a pinkie finger.
The boy's father threw the ferret across the room, killing it.
The infant is at a local hospital, but his condition hasn't been reported. Police are reportedly still investigating so we'll have to wait to see how this all shakes out.
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I dont know what the color of the ppl have to do with this. I've heard of whites, blacks, hispanics, doing unspeakable things to their kids. Neglect, abuse, murdering them.
And where were the parents while the ferret was eating the other fingers? You cant tell me that they couldnt hear a baby screaming with something like that happening. This is overly disturbing to me. I have 3 kids. And I would never ever leave any of our pets alone with any of them when they were babies. I have a 6 months old now. And when hes sleeping or taking a nap. The animals are put up or out.
Absolutely UNBELIEVABLE!!!! 1st of all, I have BOTH a ferret & a child (children) and this is not my 1st ferret. Lets start with the ferret..... NOT WILD. Havent been for thousands of years. NOR are they a "caged" animal when cared for properly. (go ahead and look this up) Yes they should have a cage, for when they have no supervision, and for them to have a place to go & feel safe, sleep, eat, relieve themselves, etc. Someone said that a ferret should have 1 hour out of the cage per day, THAT is one of the ways to get yourself an aggressive ferret. Ferrets are VERY social animals and need multiple hours out with their "people" each day. Usually whoever owned the ferret as a baby is where the blame can be placed as to whether or not it is a "biter". Infant ferrets need to be "nip" trained. They socialize with their mouths and need to be taught properly that nipping is unacceptable (and they are EXTREMELY EASY to teach this to as Ive trained 5 myself). My current ferret is just turning 1yr and he wouldnt bite you if you tried all day to make him!! He sleeps in bed with me all nite and has NEVER bit me EVER! I could coat my fingers & toes in ferret food and he still wouldnt. Hence, a properly trained and well adapted ferret.
Now the parents...... HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE people. Should not have children. Should not have pets. This was NOT the childs fault, Nor the ferrets fault. They obviously did not investigate the background of the pet they got their children as a present, they obviously did not educate themselves on the proper care of the "present", and they obviously neglected to care for both the "present" and the children the same. There is NO FREAKIN' WAY they were in that home and did not hear that childs screams of pain long enough for a single ferret to remove 7 fingers. Do you have any idea how long that would take??? If they didnt hear the 1st bite, they werent home!! Or they were passed out cold on some mind altering drug! A loving mother wakes up when her 4 month old coughs never mind cries!
Lastly, why was the ferret allowed access to an infant in the middle of the nite when everyone is sleeping? Yeah, my ferret sleeps with me but its in a closed room where he cant get out and roam the house. Both the children & the ferret needed protection from EVERYTHING and clearly these 2 adults were not responsible enough people to provide that. Now we have a tragedy. This poor, poor child who is now disabled & disfigured for life, and the inhumane way the ferret was put down. (obviously not as tragic as the child but still aweful).
Sometimes I think that people who want to have children should be screened as well as someone who wants to adopt a child...... and there should be a screening process for all pet "adoptions" as well. Certain people should not be allowed to have either one!!! These two are obviously a PRIME EXAMPLE!!!
Wild or not wild, does not matter. NO animal, domestic or not should be left with access to an infant. There is never a guarantee that any animal can have a desire to attack a helpless child such as this. If you want a pet then keep it in a cage where it belongs and this would never happen.
Ferrets are not rodents. I do agree with you. I have had 7 ferrets... they deff should be in a cage. They're curious by nature and get into everything. At least 1 hour of outside the cage time every day. And the little furball was probably STARVING. My new ferret is just a baby and plays rough, but would never gnaw a finger off. Common sense people!
Ok I don't know much or really anything about ferrets but everyone who is writing is just talking about the animal did we all forget this story is about a poor baby.
Well maybe your the one who's stupid because look what happened, all animals are wild, yes it was the parents fault to have that animal around the baby but even dogs can be wild.
I don't understand why ANYONE IN THEIR STRAIGHT MIND would have a animal like that around a infant or young child, yes people keep them as pets but it is a wild animal and I understand the parents never thought it could happen but as soon as they knew she was pregnant they should have gotten rid of the animanl, hell when I got pregnant I got rid of my bird, people don't think, and this is such a tragedy that it should have never happened, poor baby, what I don't understand is how the parents didn't hear the baby crying when the first finger was been chewed off, I'm sure the baby was crying when it first happened, why did it take 7 fingers before the parents heard the baby cry,
there's something not right here.
when i was little we had a ferret and 2 birds one ran into cristmas tree and one hit by silling fan mom went to clean the cage only thing left 4 feet 2 beeks
NO WAY A FERRET COULD DO THAT! and if it did it could not have been being taken care of the right way, and how the hell would the parents of this child not know that the ferret was doing this. That baby would have been screaming its head off! I think the parents should have been looked into.
WTF, do you know ANYTHING about ferrets? As mentioned above, ferrets do not readily eat raw meat, and especially not living human unless specifically grained to do so. Also- 7 fingers?! That's a lot- way too much for a ferret to consume so quickly, no matter what the size of the ferret is.As for you, you need to get off those drugs, I don't care how bad your life is- I know you can't getthe girls-or even the guys, and you have no job. Just get off the computer you stole from some old lady and stop being such a brainless asshole!!
Ugh, yet another stupid, ignorant dumbass... We're acting like a ferret isn't a wild animal? Uh, obviously we are, because they are DOMESTIC pets, and not wild at all! And... Rodent?! Wth? And you think it's funny for someone to be missing 7 fingers? Apparently, it's not the child or the ferret's fault, but the parents'. It's just too bad that both of them must suffer for it... Now you- you're sick, and obviously have issues. Go get therapy and also an education!
A ferret isn't a wild animal. Ferrets have been domesticated for 2000 years, longer than cats. The species of ferret that is kept as a pet doesn't exist in the wild anymore. Also, they're in the weasel family. They are not rodents; in fact they're likely to eat a rodent if they can catch one. Research before you post garbage like this. The family was obviously neglecting either the child or the animal. In my opinion, they were most likely neglecting both.
I can almost guarantee you the Ferret DID NOT chew the babies fingers off I've had ferrets for the past 14 years 2 of them and they wouldn't bite a flea nevermind a child!! There's much more to the story then being read and the parent that threw and killed the ferret shot be shot!!
Oh my. I am not sure what to say to this. I know that I have many ferrets. They can not climb three feet into a crib. I am completely at a loss on this. To throw a ferret into a wall. Most of them would not die that way. Seven fingers and not hear anything. WOW. According to one of the news messages, the dad was in the same room. I am sorry for that little baby, but they need to look further into this. Ferrets are a lot of things to people, but I have had them with newborns. They were free and roaming and that has never happened. Maybe I am a fortunate person, but I have heard from lots of people that that is not in their nature.
The parent's were neglectful...the mother was supposedly sleeping near the baby when this happened, how is it possible to sleep near ur baby and not hear them crying until their 7th finger is being chewed off and why was the child not in his crib or in a bed w/ his parents at 2:30 a.m. he was in a chair:-0! Maybe if they would've fed this animal this would not have occurred! Some people say the ferret shouldn't be roaming around at night...I agree, but if the ferret did this sort of thing at night he could have very well done the same thing in broad daylight. The fact that the man threw the ferret against the dishwasher and killed it instantly says a lot... this ferret was not loved and was not feed either and my guess is that this poor baby will have to deal w/ more of these horrible situations throughout his life due to his parents negligence!!!
I hope the police took the dead ferret and are doing an autopsy on it to see if there are any human remains in him... I HIGHLY doubt it.. If anything got to this poor baby it was probably RATS...We have owned several Ferrtet for over 25 years now my son has 2 of his own and I have NEVER had an incedent of any Ferret we have ever owned biting anyone other than playing...I feel these parents were very neglectful there is NO WAY you could not hear a baby SCREAMING in what must have been EXCRUTIATING PAIN.
i balme the parents fully..first of all who would leave a child unattended while they were sleeping knowing this thing is runnin around wild..second of all how long do u think it would take a ferret to chew off seven fingers..ur gonna tell me they didnt hear the screams till then..i think they just either didnt care or very neglectful..when my kids were little i would wake up to even such a tiny whine that i dnt see how they didnt hear anything..it doesnt matter if it was the ferret.it wouldnt b the ferrets fault they dnt no better thats y they r called animals..all im sayin is they had a very small baby and they should of been checkin on him even if he wasnt crying
yall are commenting on the wrong thing the whole subject is not about race or the fact that this animal is wild or not...people this thing ate off a little babbys fingers...pay attension..i dnt give a damn who the parents were or even wut kind of animal it was..that baby has to suffer now for the rest of his/her life..yall r the stupid ones arguing around the issue
i do agree that the parents are dumb for letting a farret run wild while they are sleepin or not attending to their child but wuts with the racial issue..blacks whites mexicans indians chinks..every race does stupid shit ..this didnt happen cause they were white this happened aouuta stupidity..
Either way its looked at it IS the parents fault. They should have had it caged, and made sure it was feed. They didn't have a license for it and the state required it. This was nothing more that Child neglect and Animal abuse. They should be charged. I am sorry for the baby';s fingers, he will have to live like that for his lifetime. And the ferret , the way he killed it was uncalled for but at least the ferret is better off without that family from HELL..Bless the little boy. I hope he becomes a Exotic Vet.. and don't hate them for what his parents neglected to do...
HEY justforqueerbirds i bet you dont think its a childmolesters fualt either!!! "he's just a wild animal,maybe we can change him".wait until your ferret chews off your little boys winkie,you will both be singing a different then,only one of you will be singing saprano!!!!!
What dumb ass would get fucked up anyway with a baby? How dumb can you get? How could you not hear the baby screaming? The parents are to worried about getting fucked up than taking care of there kid. Unfit parents if i do say so myself/
The Ferrit dident know better but the mother and father of the baby did. So put the blame where it belongs!!
Are the parents deaf or what????
If the baby got bit once the baby would be crying so why did it take that long for them to hear it ?
I think they were stoned or something!!
I hope that baby grows up to hate them for what they have done.
They need to be put in jail for a long time and take all there pets away to!!!!
hey! alfa-frickin' bet! did YOU know the ferret??? did you KNOW the ferrets famialy??? that poor cridder grew up on the mean streets of KC,KS where a meal was hard to come by.think about food names,"Chinken Fingers & Baby Carrots" maybe the poor little creature just got confused with your "AGRO-AMERICAN" (that means redneck) English!!!!! maybe he didnt get the benifit of a JO CO education,you know - the one where they teach you not to get adopted out to BACKWOOD BAREFOOT RIDGE RUNIIN' HILLBILLY MUTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!!!!
I have doubts about this story.
#1: ferrets are not nocturnal. Ours are dead to the
world all night and most of the day.
#2: 7 fingers for a ferret is a lot; too much to eat at
one time
#3: if the ferret was aggressive towards the baby;
this would have been noted previously
#4: we have 2 ferrtes; they are actually quite
protectiive of our boys. If we tickle one of the
boys; the older ferret will intercede: he won't
bite, but; he will put himself between our boy
and us. It is hilarious to watch; like what
would he be able to do. But: he's willing to
put himself at risk.
#5: I would suspect rats did this and the ferret
came to the rescue; thta's a more
logical scenario. Rats are nocturnal
and known to do this kind of thing.
Hey Dickweed, that's not funny about the kid. The baby didn't have any choice in this ordeal, so don't laugh about it.
They should not have had a ferret in the house with a baby.Period.
Ferrets are neither exotic nor wild. They have been domesticated since maybe even prior to cats. Ferrets are mentioned in the bible. They were domesticated by the Egyptians to control mice, rats and rabbits. There must simply be more to this than has been hysterically published in the news.
I have lived with Animals and been taking care of them for over 20 years there is no way this would had happened as it is being reported.
Most likely the parents left there children home alone or the gave the baby nightquil to get it to go to sleep.
Also Animals like ferrets do not eat flesh as readily as this they have to be raised on it.
Ferrets are creatures that when they have food they take it somewhere else to eat it.
there was another case a couple of years ago just like this and after they killed the ferret and opened him up they found no human remands in his stomach and it was later ruled the parents drugged the child as i listed above and that the rats that they had had problems with attacked the child as it slept on the living room floor.
A ferret actually IS NOT a wild animal, you will never find a ferret in the wilderness. The closest you will get is a polecat, or a very rare Black Footed ferret which are much larger than domestic DOMESTIC ferrets!! And ferrets are not a rodent not even close only a neglected ferret would ever go after flesh, unless of course they were trained that way. again STUPID STUPID people!!!!
DUDE!!! I have five ferrets and have never been bit by my ferrets. But I have been bit! Id like to know how long these people had the ferret or if they just got it as a novelty as so many people do!!! Not very many things make my blood boil but this is certainly one of them. And as Chimpolte said there is NO F"ING way that baby started crying on his 7th finger ferrets teeth are very sharp and even a small bite that doesnt cause blood would make a child cry, hell it would make some adults cry. And who the hell lets there ferrets roam around the house with a new baby? I dont even let mine roam and I dont have small children. So boo on the parents CPS should take that child away and arrest the dad for killing it. STUPID STUPID STUPID people. And to Kissmyass..... FERRETS ARE NOT RODENTS!!! And Cristina I agree with you as well what were these monsters doing to that poor ferret, it may be true, and I wont deny that I preffer animals over little people, and I do feel bad for the kid but because of his parents. GRRRR people are so F"ing dumb!!!!!!!!!!!!
yall act like a ferret is not a wild animal! dats y u get a cage! i dont feel bad at all! wht ppl alway gettin a exotic animal and swear its not harmful! at least feed the dam rodent! now ya kid gon get laughed at wen he or she gets older! yea da daddy killed the ferret, but yo kid wont ever play normal again! lmao lmao cuz wht ppl r so trusyworthy!
I would just like to say that i am a mother of 3 and own 2 ferrets myself. I find it hard to believe that two parents slept thru a 4 month old child screaming in paid while a ferret chewed off 7 fingers. I would also like to know the conditions the ferret was kept in to prompt such behavior. My ferrets are not agressive let alone would they bit hard enough to make me or my child say oww. What kind of parents sit thru hours of their child crying or even screaming while his fingers are being chewed off. I am sorry but they are bad parents and bad pet owners, and that is my opinion.
I'll rail against the parents. There's no way the baby started crying as his SEVENTH FINGER was being gnawed off. So they probably sat there with the kid crying for who knows how long. And then we have Mr. Ferret who is running loose around the house, apparently so hungry that seven fingers of another living creature sounded appealing. Then the father threw said ferret so hard that it died. This kid has a bright future of neglect ahead of him.
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