From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2006-12-18 15:10:53 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: older ferret (6.5yrs) choking on kibble
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Several excellent suggestions have been made.
Another is that the ferret may have been
1. happy enough to be on kibble again,
2. very hungry at the time (Surgery recovery at some points
after the earliest times can really make an individual hungry.), or
3. worried that others might have stolen the food
so the food was being bolted. We've sometimes seen that under
such conditions with all types of foods; like some humans they
at times eat too fast without breaking the food up small enough.
Bolting food, gagging or regurgitating pieces which are too large,
and re-eating even happens at times in the wild with carnivores
who are rushing through a meal. In fact, bolting food is even also
calling "wolfing down food" because it is such a familiar wild
behavior.
Sukie (not a vet)
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