More facts there. For example, the mother was asleep in the same room. Also the baby was in a carrier, not in a crib. That baby would have been crying the first nibble.

On top of that a six month old ferret would have to be quite hungry to eat that much in one sitting. I can’t see my adult ferrets eating that much if they were decently fed.

Of the many ferret owners I’ve talked to who have read that article we pretty much agree that if it were the ferret it had to have been starved and took quite a while, during which the mother, in the same room, either was too out of it to be aware of the baby’s cries or ignored the cries for quite some time.

Any way you slice it the headline should have read, “Breeder’s neglect results in a baby losing 7 fingers.” They most likely neglected the ferret, they certainly neglected the baby.