From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2005-01-10 21:43:19 UTC
Subject: RE: food risks
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <730938.1105393399527.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
> All foods have risk, it is sad when the benefits are swept under the carpet in favour of disproportionate fears.
That you for the info, and now you can add the bone one. If memory serves there are one or two vets mentioning problems/deaths with bones in the Archives here or in the FML or both as well as the death I mentioned which happened locally years back, but "bone" is a pretty huge thing to search on and I don't know if those mentions were specifically ferrets or other animals.
Was it a piece of kibble itself? Was it that awful stuff with the large fruit pieces? I ask because hard fruit pieces are a well documented risk (just as hard veggie pieces are). Many more ferrets eat kibble than bone, but you are right that rates appear to be low in both cases.
It is important that people know what can occur, and mentioning one incident while saying that it is one incident certainly gives an idea of rate, just as your mentioning one incident while also being frank about the number also does so neither is fear mongering.
Whether or not to feed bone is a choice situation; some of us don't and some of us do. We don't.