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Date: 2004-03-23 15:57:34 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] RE: Ferret Feeding
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
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>From: sukiec@optonline.net
>>food. Sid lived longer than any ferret I've had since and
he never had either >adrenal disease or insulinoma. What
does that mean? Who knows. Luck I guess
>> because it couldn't have been the food.
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>I've wondcered at times about this, having had similar
experiences with very low quality food decades ago and know
a number of others with similar results from then, and have
an idea, but it is only that.
>
I wonder if there could also have been a restricted calorie
intake effect going on--if less of the food is digestible,
then the ferret is presumably getting fewer calories from
the same amount of food. Not, of course, that I advocate
feeding cheap foods in order to follow a restricted calorie
intake diet--it's just something that occured to me.
Regina (who would rather live a shorter life with less
crankiness than a longer life of hunger, personally)