From:
autumn_whispers2me
Date: 2005-04-26 13:08:11 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] RE: Question
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <6603598.1114532390623.JavaMail.nobody@strontium.smartgroups.com>
Sukie, I'm really worried now about what you posted since Boo-Boo is still refusing kibble!! He's been on Bob Church's chicken gravy recipe (sans bones and eggshells, per vet) for months. What can I do since he wont eat his kibble? I did catch him twice eating his kibble, and I don't know why he did, but he's gone as long as 12 hours (did that only once, per vet's instructions to stop feeding gravy cold turkey) and didn't eat the kibble.
I asked the vet once about the Pet Tinic (sp?), but she says that's for anemic animals and not for Boo-Boo's situation.
I'm really, really scared about this now. Do you have any advice on supplements or anything I can do until he eats his kibble???
Also, it's time to make another batch: Will it help at all if I add WAY more ground kibble to the mixture than the recipe calls for?? Should I just start feeding him kibble made to 'gravy texture'? Sorry about all the questions, but I'm really scared for him now. :o(
Ella
sukiec@optonline.net wrote:
Author wrote:
> Has anyone heard of Hypocalcemia in ferrets who is fixed?
> Julie
Is this a ferret who is on an all-meat or mostly meat diet? In dogs and cats that is a common cause of low calcium levels.
(All meat and mostly meat diets can also cause shortages of other minerals which are normally found in non-meat portions of prey such as the high mineral contents of many organs. Such diets are unbalanced and unsafe.)