This is Why I am a Horrible Person

Not as sad as the otter story I swear!!

NJ Man Slits Throat of Girlfriend's Ferret

The ferret is (amazingly) fine.  I am horrible because these are the thoughts I immediately had upon reading this story.

1 - I would like this person to suffer (I don't think that's the horrible one, actually; I'm pretty sure if I came home and someone had done such a thing to one of my guys, and I knew who it was, my first call would not be to the cops.)

2 - (this is the horrible one) Why in heaven's name would you cut its throat?  There have to be 10 better ways to kill a small animal.

I am so going to hell.  First, I am going to go smooch the weasels, though.  If they let me near them.

(Okay, cute ferret story to make up for it, and a good illustration of the difference between Otto and Butters.

So, I got home yesterday, and let them out, and went upstairs to take a shower.  They, of course, frolicked up behind me, to keep company.  I started the water, and put my hand in to check the temp.  Then, since Otto was there, I held my arm down so he could drink the water off my fingers.  The first drop or two dripped on his head, since he was looking down, but then he looked up and licked a bit.  Then, because he has a short attention span, he romped off.

I checked the water again - much better - and Butters appeared on the bathmat.  So, I repeated the process with Butters; reaching down to offer him water.  Some dripped on his head - and he shook his head, and sneezed, and whuffled at the water on the carpet - but at no point did he look up to figure out why he was getting wet.  I had to poke him on the head to get him to look.

So sweet, the Butters....and so simple.

(Does it undermine the story if I say I just this minute, I heard Otto coughing, so I went into the ktichen to check, and found he was choking on a string coming off of one of his toy mousies.  And when I extracted the mousie, he immediately hopped up and tried to grab it back from me.  Sigh.))