CHILD ATTACKED BY A FERRET.

North Otago Times, 11 October 1907, Page 2

CHILD ATTACKED BY A FERRET.

A shocking case ;was received at the Molbourne Eye and Ear Hospital recently, when a child, aged two years, named. -Jessie Kidd, was scat to the inst-itnHon with both eyes, swollen, and. 'bleeding, the iiijucics havIng been oaiisod by a ferret whldi; had esoapod from its box and* attacked the lit/tic one while it ' was sleeping. The child lives with her parents', at North Melbourno. Her mother is a helpless and bodriddon invalid. On Saturday afternoon the child's lather, who Keeps ferrets, was; away from borne, anil the little ones Is supposed to havo been lett asleep, ' Tito neighbors were alarmed by ■ the pitiful cries of tlie little one. .As they wcro continued for some lime, several of the neighbors ran into the houso, and found one of the ferrets on the ohild's face, fastened on to one of, her eyes, which the ferocious beast was apparently tearing-out...' The j other cyo was covered with , blood 'and swollen to such.an extent that the horrified neighbors thought tiiei ferret had torn it out. ■ It was wttti difficulty that the creature couM to removed from the ohild's face, and it presentoil a' stocking appearance as " It was forced away from it prey writhing and snapping, its head coverod with ; the, child's blood. Dr. Weigall found that the .ferret had! bitten Me;child over oaoh eyelid, ar.<t had suc«ed the, 'Wood'from caofj wound. The sight bad not, been injured, and the tittle (tfrl at latest progressing favorably. W'-