From:
angela@ort.org
Date: 2002-08-31 07:55:06 UTC
Subject: RE: Bob C: Ferret Caretaker Quiz
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <5398360.1030780506746.JavaMail.root@scandium>
Sukie
Thanks for the reply and explaining what neotony means :-) - that's much clearer.
I see your comments below, but I am still baffled why Americans seem so steadfast about feeding kibble (I understand this one for convenience - I feed this stuff too) and supplementing it with duck soup - why not raw meat - I just don't understand. Why go to all the trouble of cooking meat and making duck soup when you could feed raw meat?
Cooking meat changes the chemical structure and destroys some nutrients. Bob also says in one of his replies about frequency of feeding that ferrets are essentially polecats and haven't changed much - so wouldn't raw meat as primary feed be much better?
You say the proof of the pudding....and that your ferrets live to 7 or 8, but how many illnesses do US ferrets suffer and in the UK ferrets seem to live between 8 - 12 years old. I do understand that there are many factors that could be influencing health and longevity.
> fine. We primarily use high quality kibbles, and when mean (average)
> and mode (typical) ages at death were compared here there weren't
> differences between the ages our's achieve compared to the ones on
> raw diets.
> As the saying goes: "The proof is in the pudding".
Angela