Nancy,
 
    I'm afraid I have to take exception to your comment in Issue 414 about
the manufacturers of Ferretone purposely labelling for a higher dose simply to
make money.  I don't pretend to know anywhere near as much about ferret
nutrition as you do, so I hate to argue this point, but I felt is was an
unfair statement.  I am a vet student, so I am by no means naive concerning
the motives of pharmaceutical companies.  However, I would strongly hesitate
to believe that any company would be stupid enough to cut it's own throat by
purposely mislabelling a drug (it is, however minor, a drug).  That is illegal
and would stand them a very good chance of getting sued as soon as the first
ferret came up with vitamin acidosis.  I feel it more likely that the stuff
simply is made less concentrated than that for dogs or cats -- it's such a
must for ferrets that I can see them doing *that* just to sell more.  I was
suspicious of the seemingly high dose after all I'd heard on the list when I
first got Trella, so I checked with one of our two local ferret vets (the one
the Central Illinois Friends of Ferrets shelter trusts its ferrets to) and he
said that the label was right.  Sorry; I don't want to start an argument, but
I just felt someone (albeit a company that probably deserves it for something
else!) was being accused unjustly with no means of defense.
 
                   Laura
 
Laura L'Heureux and Trella, too
U. of Illinois VM96
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[Posted in FML issue 0416]