From: 
gidgmon1@aol.com 
Date: 2001-04-15 18:41:00 UTC
Subject: Re: [Ferret-Health-list] Re: Raw meat = tartar and gingiv
             In a message dated 4/15/01 6:17:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
            ferretlove@ntlworld.com writes: 
              I was happy when mine were switched 
              from kibble to raw ground meat but right now it seems impossible 
              to get them 
              to eat chunks of meat.  But I'll try... 
            Hi, 
            I am a new member here. I was really interested in reading this as 
            it seems 
            as if you may be talking about a BARF diet or something similar. 
            That is how 
            I feed my dogs, and I would really like to feed my ferret Mable that 
            way. I 
            have introduced small pieces of raw ground meat, but she wants 
            nothing to do 
            with it. 
            I have had her a little over a month, and she was fed a low quality 
            sugary 
            cat food before I got her. After reading the ingredients on every 
            ferret food 
            and cat food in the petstore, I decided to feed her Nature's Recipe 
            for cats. 
            I am still not very happy with it, and would order something else if 
            I felt 
            it were a better quality. 
            Ideally, I would like to feed a natural diet for her. Any 
            suggestions, books 
            websites, were I can research this better? Also any suggestions on 
            getting 
            her to try meat? 
            Thanks, 
            April