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Date: | Tue, 14 May 2002 02:27:00 -0600 |
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I wonder what your friend is feeding her ferrets.
I ask because I recently went to a new feed store looking for alternative
ferret litter (wrong time of year for woodstove pellets) and the clerk
there offered me a free opened bag bag of chinchilla food (basically
rabbit food/alfalfa pellets). They said someone had brought it back to
them because their ferret had just died. Can you guess why? That's what
they were feeding their poor ferret. I almost cried on the spot when the
clerk told me that. The people at the store of course set this person
straight, that, hello!, ferrets are *carnivores* but it was too late for
that poor little ferret. Sick and wrong.
Some people may ignorantly be feeding their ferret inappropriate food,
say, dog food, or a vegetarian diet. I recall reading of someone who
rescued a ferret who was being fed nothing but fake 'krab' meat and
lettuce.
So along with wondering about some kind of gas/toxic/noxious fumes causing
the deaths of the ferrets, I'd also be wondering about their diet. Just a
thought.
daoine o'
*aka the ferret queen*
Dweezil, Loki, and Razzle
~Sylvi~Rainbow Bridge~01/23/01~
[Posted in FML issue 3783]
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