"Concerns over therapy ferrets used to kill rats at UK’s largest children’s prison"

[The Bread Guy]

Good idea fairy firing alright, fairy - STOPS! What do you do?

Someone thought using the emotional support ferrets in a kid's prison to kill rats was a good idea - until one of the kids being emotionally supported sees the ferret doing its Darwinistic thing on a rat?

Concerns over therapy ferrets used to kill rats at UK’s largest children’s prison

Prison officers’ union calls for immediate end to practice at HMYOI Wetherby over fears for child and animal welfare

www.theguardian.com

Number of WTF elements here, like the kids, and so many rats "the system" isn't dealing with that staff need alternate measures.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Good idea fairy firing alright, fairy - STOPS! What do you do?

Someone thought using the emotional support ferrets in a kid's prison to kill rats was a good idea

The ancients knew ways of doing things. People have become too emotionally fragile. Not exposing them to realities of existence is part of what makes people emotionally fragile. A downward spiral.

 

[brihard]

Jesus. Every word of that headline is a new adventure.

 

[The Bread Guy]

The ancients knew ways of doing things. People have become too emotionally fragile. Not exposing them to realities of existence is part of what makes people emotionally fragile. A downward spiral.

Sad there can't be, say, something somewhere in the middle between wrapping young offenders in bubble wrap and making them witness ferret-rat gladiator games to teach them how the real world works outside, right?

 

[Brad Sallows]

Sad there can't be, say, something somewhere in the middle between wrapping young offenders in bubble wrap and making them witness ferret-rat gladiator games to teach them how the real world works outside, right?

I doubt pit fights between roosters or dogs are needed. A ferret doing what it was originally domesticated to do is OK.

 

[The Bread Guy]

I doubt pit fights between roosters or dogs are needed. A ferret doing what it was originally domesticated to do is OK.

Notwithstanding there's enough of a rat buffet in a prison that management can't deal with it outside of press ganging the emotional support animals.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Notwithstanding there's enough of a rat buffet in a prison that management can't deal with it outside of press ganging the emotional support animals.

Rats are surprisingly difficult to control and kill, and some of the usual means are harmful or fatal to other animals.

 

[KevinB]

Rats are surprisingly difficult to control and kill, and some of the usual means are harmful or fatal to other animals.

Or people. I doubt releasing snakes into the prison would be seen as helpful.

I’d like to order a few hundred Egyptian ASP’s please? They are for a children’s prison (which also brings up a lot of questions — which I suppose the ASP’s could also answer…)

 

[Brad Sallows]

Or people. I doubt releasing snakes into the prison would be seen as helpful.

I’d like to order a few hundred Egyptian ASP’s please? They are for a children’s prison (which also brings up a lot of questions — which I suppose the ASP’s could also answer…)

"Why is that pretty bird lying there?"

"It's dead."

"Why is it dead?"

"It ate part of a dead rat."

"Why did the rat die?"

"We poisoned it."

There isn't really a unicorns-and-rainbows solution.

 

[GK .Dundas]

Or people. I doubt releasing snakes into the prison would be seen as helpful.

I’d like to order a few hundred Egyptian ASP’s please? They are for a children’s prison (which also brings up a lot of questions — which I suppose the ASP’s could also answer…)

"Now then kids, the difference between poisonous and venomous is really quite simple.
If it's poisonous don't bite it.
I'm looking at you Bobby!
And if it venomous don't let it bite you!
Think we can all remember that ? "