I did say perhaps six, that is I didn't stipulate a specific age. Moreover, I also put a caveat to the effect that it ought to be illegal to own a ferret if kid

I did say perhaps six, that is I didn't stipulate a specific age. Moreover, I also put a caveat to the effect that it ought to be illegal to own a ferret if kids were of an age where they were unable to protect themselves. What more could I've said to be reasonable? Clearly there's no pleasing some people no matter how reasonable or considered one's comments are - and you're one of them. Your ludicrous implication that a ferret is as dangerous as a tiger cub points to the degree of how unreasonable you actually are. Incidentally, despite not owing one as a pet, I've actually held and played with ferrets and I found them great fun and they've never bitten me - unlike some family cats I've known. As I've posted previously on HN, I thank myself truly lucky that I grew up in an era before overprotective helicopter parenting and thus - unlike many of today's generation - I along with my friends grew up with both autonomy and resilience. There would have been nothing further from my parents' minds than the thought of my parents banning me from owning a ferret and by the standards of the day they were overprotective of me (I used to whinge about it when I saw what my friends' parents let them get up to). P.S., thanks for the downvote. - Edit/afterthought: decades ago when I was a kid I was living outside the US and up to that point I'd never been there let alone California. Even so, at that young age I well aware of CA's well deserved reputation of being the 'whacky' state - the whole world was aware of the fact. Thus it's little wonder CA's the odd-man-out on ferret laws, it's just acting true to form.