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Would you let your child visit his friend who just recently got a pet prairie dog? Some years ago, prairie dogs had spread the disease ..
... known as monkeypox to a number of people who purchased such an untypical pet. The prairie dogs were found to have been infected after coming in contact with an African Gambian giant pouched rat at a pet distributor. Although your child's friend's pet may not have come in close contact with another animal carrying the disease, it may still carry other diseases. Would you allow your child to meet this new pet?
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Sure, I would! I'd want to see it myself! There are disease germs all around, and my child is more likely to catch something from a playmate he sees every day than from meeting a new animal one time. Of course, you want to practice good hygiene when handling animals, whether they're wild critters or domestic pets, and use a bit of common sense, like not sticking your face up close and asking to get your nose bitten.
My sister-in-law has owned a variety of small animals over the years, ferrets, hedgehogs, rodents, snakes, bats (she had one trained to sit on her shoulder) and she and her family have never caught anything from any of them.
My sister-in-law has owned a variety of small animals over the years, ferrets, hedgehogs, rodents, snakes, bats (she had one trained to sit on her shoulder) and she and her family have never caught anything from any of them.
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November 29, 2009 11:29 PM
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I wasn't given the choice, but felt I did not want my children to be holding it. They had to wash hands right away after touching it and I asked the pet did not come back over to our house even if it meant it had to stay in the car.
they were Ginny pigs...
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November 30, 2009 03:28 AM
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Of course I would. The key words in the question are "some years ago." Why should I panic over an epidemic that's in the past? The odds of this particular prairie dog having it, and then spreading it, aren't anywhere near high enough to be worth my concern.
On top of that, you've got the fact that it'd probably be somewhat rude to decline a visit just because of one pet. My child doesn't have to go out of his/her way to play with it. He or she doesn't even have to be in the same room as it. If it's that much of a concern, my child's friend can come to my house, but really, I don't see why it would have to come to that at all..
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On top of that, you've got the fact that it'd probably be somewhat rude to decline a visit just because of one pet. My child doesn't have to go out of his/her way to play with it. He or she doesn't even have to be in the same room as it. If it's that much of a concern, my child's friend can come to my house, but really, I don't see why it would have to come to that at all..
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