That's the thing that a lot of teachers didn't understand. Attacking a child with a stick or their fists , just because they were angry, isn't corporal punishment, its child abuse .
Getting back to the original post . My mate always loved coming to family BBQs here , because his daughter said we had more animals than the animal man . We had , a jackdaw , snakes , tarantulas , ferrets , dogs , fish , rats , hamsters , and they could all be handled ( yes , even most of the fish).