Meats: I know that some say that feeding overt meat causes biting, but
the evidence against that hypothesis abounds.  We've never seen any
difference.  Here we use times out for biting and are consistent about
it and have no biting problems.  Okay, Scooter will bite when a catheter
is removed post-surgically, but I felt like biting when mine have come
out, too.  (In 20 years that is the best technique we've found to stop
biting.)
 
What food terms mean:
 
Go to:
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/
 
Once there search under the terms and read info from Dr. Tom Willard
whose doctorate is in the topic and you'll get (Forgive me, please.) the
straight poop.  There is info from him and from vet, Dr. Jerry Murray on
starch components in there, too, as well as a highly recommended set of
letters from JM on fish oils.
 
That site above, which holds complete archives from the Ferret Health
List, and the Ferret Health List
http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/ferrethealth
are good places when medical questions such as diet ones arise, and
the archives for the FML
http://listserv.cuny.edu/archives/ferret-search.html
also answers many of these questions which regularly repeat, as well as
some extremely uncommon ones.  (For instance, in both the FHL Archives
and Files there is info on A/V Heart Node Block to be found -- even meds
for managing with Level 3 (complete) ones for as long as possible, even
though most vet cardiologists consulted have no ferret experience on this
so a vet would have to search around when time is lacking to find info.
The info available is from those who worked with the one set of
veterinary cardiologists found who have such experience with ferrets and
what has worked so far for affected ferrets.)
[Posted in FML issue 3870]