From:
ferrethealer@aol.com
Date: 2007-05-16 23:39:38 UTC
Subject: Home Cooking and Raw Diets Re: [ferrethealth] Digest Number 785
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
In a message dated 05/16/07 7:09:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com writes:
That is VERY good to know. May I ask what your position is on home cooking
and also raw diets for pets.
**I have no problems with home cooked meals IF they are done correctly, but I
have to say that I have seen very few owners who are willing to do the needed
things to produce a balanced home cooked diet. My clients who have expressed
interest in it are provided with several recipes and told that I will happily
work with them to make sure their animal gets the proper nutrition, but most
decide not to when they realize the amount of work that can go into making
sure that it is balanced properly.
As far as raw feeding - I am not a big proponent of it as I have seen quite a
few ill animals of differing species (dogs, mostly, but some cats and ferrets
as well) from improperly stored food, parasitism (the only ferrets I have
ever diagnosed with intestinal nematodes were on a raw diet), and severe
malnutrition problems from people assuming muscle meat was enough to give, as well as
one ferret with confirmed intestinal perforation from a bone splinter. But
there again, I have some clients who have expressed interest in it and are
willing to deal with the ins and outs of properly balancing it, and am perfectly
willing to work with them on it, usually recommending a whole prey diet
consisting of adult animals. My own ferrets will likely never eat a raw diet
(although we make a whole animal meat gravy for them as a supplement to their kibble)
- but I'm not set in stone against it.**
Dr. Ruth
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