From:
sukieferret
Date: 2002-05-08 17:40:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Thin Ferret, "no go" on baby food.....
> Warmed food is always received better than cold. If your ferret
> won't take the food readily off of your finger, then smear some
> on her nose and in her mouth, preferably on the side, by the >
>"cheek". Do this every couple of hours or so
Oh, YES!
Have to say, though, that we have some who are more
amenable to mammal meats than poultry ones for baby foods,
and two with IBD who get sick on poultry that isn't broken down
as throoughly as in Feline z/d.
One of our's HATED soupy foods so we got a small squeeze
bottle; and then he would eat anything from the bottle. He
absolutely loved eating that way. All we had to say was, "Bottle"
and he would come running. (Be sure to give breathing breaks;
bottles do give much more control on that score than things like
syringes. You don't want asperation pneumonia.)
Have to also agree that Nutrical and Ferretone are useful for a
number of ferrets.