Would you let your child visit his friend who just recently got a pet prairie dog? Some years ago, prairie dogs had spread the disease?

Sure, I would! I'd want to see it myself! There are disease germs all around, and my child is more likely to catch something from a playmate he sees every day than from meeting a new animal one time.

Of course, you want to practice good hygiene when handling animals, whether they're wild critters or domestic pets, and use a bit of common sense, like not sticking your face up close and asking to get your nose bitten. My sister-in-law has owned a variety of small animals over the years, ferrets, hedgehogs, rodents, snakes, bats (she had one trained to sit on her shoulder) and she and her family have never caught anything from any of them.

I wasn't given the choice, but felt I did not want my children to be holding it. They had to wash hands right away after touching it and I asked the pet did not come back over to our house even if it meant it had to stay in the car. They were Ginny pigs...

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.