Message Number: FHL2678 | New FHL Archives SearchFrom: "Laryssa"
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 06:35:07 -0000
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Overweight ferret
Sounds like the only thing you can do is just ration the food a bit.
Also, what food were they feeding?
Don't do anything drastic, just like give a cup in the morning, see
how much she eats...and go from there. How long does a cup last for
her? She may not have been overeating as much as just eating the wrong
stuff. But, without rationing, I have see overweight ferrets stay
overweight for a long, long time. Even exercizing doesn't work
sometimes....
Laryssa
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "natczer" <natczer@...> wrote:
>
> I've just adopted a new ferret, de-sexed male. He is really
> overweight. I'm just wondering what tactics I can use to help him lose
> weight? Food options are limited as I live in Australia and few ferret
> foods are available here. I feed Innova Evo ferret to as well as
> various fresh meats to my existing ferret(which she'll only eat if I
> hand feed her!)and she's in great shape. I really never realised
> ferrets could get so fat! It isn't any else health related as all of
> the rescues from the place I got him from were in similar shape.
> Obviously plenty of exercise time out of the cage. Any other ideas?
>
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