fresh food
What the hell do you think the most important ingredient in kibble is?
News Flash: It's MEAT!!
This Just In: Meat comes from ANIMALS!!
Ferrets are obligate carnivores - their digestive system can only handle
MEAT properly for their nutrition. So, unless you're stupidly trying to keep
your ferret healthy on a vegetarian diet - that is, if you're feeding them
commercially-made kibble - you're already feeding them MEAT!
Now, if it were *you* we were discussing here, which would you rather eat -
fresh meat, or over-processed meat by-products w/ all sorts of chemicals
added, along w/ corn & other fillers?
The truth is, the majority of people (in the US, at any rate) don't have the
*luxury* of being able to feed their ferrets the kind of diet Molly is able
to provide for her ferrets, either due to not having the proper resources
nearby to do it, time, expense, whatever. I include myself in that group, as
mine eat kibble, take dietary suppliments, & all that.
Evolution/God/Mother Nature/The Ferret Fairy made ferrets carnivores. If
ferrets were wild animals, they would hunt & kill for food, as many of their
wild cousins do. They wouldn't munch on celery stalks, or drive to McPetco
for a pulverized Totally Ferret burger.
And as if *that's* not enough, Molly has been around (& around *here*)
longer than you, & has owned & cared for more ferrets (& dogs & chicken &
etc) in her life than you probably ever will.
So my suggetion would be that you GET OVER IT, buy a copy of "Ferrets for
Dummies", & sit down w/ your latte & read the sucker.
Lin, Ariel, Oberon, Max, & Puck
PS: A male ferret weighing 1.75 lbs is NOT "huge". My little boy Max only
weighs 2.3 lbs, & my 12 wk old Puck weighed 1.7 lbs 2 wks ago - & he's grown
a lot since then.
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