From a July 23 broadcast of New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s weekly radio show on WABC-AM. On June 29, the city’s Board of Health issued a directive banning pet ferrets, and over a hundred other animals considered to be “wild, ferocious, fierce, dangerous or naturally inclined to do harm.”

rudolph giuliani: We’re going to go to David in Oceanside.

david guthartz: Hello, Mr. Giuliani, we speak again.

giuliani: Hi, David.

guthartz: Let me introduce myself again: David Guthartz, executive president of New…