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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Wed Jun 11, 2014, 06:42 PM Jun 2014

Q Poll: NYC voters support horses, split on ferrets

Joseph Spector

Keep the horses, leave the ferrets.

New York City residents want to overwhelmingly keep the horse-drawn carriages that Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to ban, but they are split on whether the city should allow ferrets to be pets—which he supports, a Quinnipiac University poll today found.

http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2014/06/11/q-poll-nyc-voters-support-horses-split-ferrets/

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Q Poll: NYC voters support horses, split on ferrets (Original Post) hrmjustin Jun 2014 OP

What's the objection to ferrets? I can understand an objection to valerief Jun 2014 #1

Supposedly when they were legal here they got into walls and terrorized neighbors. hrmjustin Jun 2014 #2

Ah. My neighbor has a pet ferret. Doesn't faze me. The previous neighbors were breeding valerief Jun 2014 #3

My sister had two ferrets and they were pleasant. hrmjustin Jun 2014 #4

valerief

(53,235 posts)

1. What's the objection to ferrets? I can understand an objection to

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Wed Jun 11, 2014, 06:56 PM

Jun 2014

pit bulls but domestic ferrets? Not that I'd want one as a pet, but they make more sense than, like, boa constrictors or other large snakes but people keep them.