colburns wrote:
>Greetings, to the far side of the world. (Or are you guys really the
>middle of everything because you have good beer and platypuses to look
>at and laugh while you are drunk, and I live on the far side of the
>world?)
 
I think any country which can invent a creature as tough as the wombat
deserves some credit ;p
 
>I have fed high protein, high fat kitten chow now for seven years with
>no insulinoma, no adreneloma. When I ask why it's bad for me to feed
>this I get answers like  "The ingredients aren't as good as ferret
>chow."  When I look at the ingredients in most ferret chow, however,
>they are  basically the same. High fat, high protein, taurine added.
>When I tell the detractors that it has not less than 34% crude
>protein, not less than 22% crude fat, and that the first two
>ingredients are chicken, and chicken by products, taurine is added,
>their mouths tighten down into a little tiny "o", and they turn red
>and get mad. (This is Iam's Kitten chow.)  This is when I add that it
>is available on supermarket shelves, and costs half of what ferret
>chow does. If the person isn't sufficiently mad by my standards yet, I
>add that there are commercial brands that say "FOR FERRETS" on the
>label that include, of all things, fruit and vegetable chips, neither
>of which ferrets can digest.
 
I found that all of the science-diet type brands at the vet surgery
didn't meet the standards I had been told to look for (which, after
reading essays on the subject by ferret-specialist vets, consisted mostly
of minimum amounts of protein/fat things like "MUST HAVE TAURINE!" and
"CORN BAD!").  To be fair, though, they were all cat or dog foods, not
ferret foods.  Hence why I was asking about ferret foods, in hopes that
they might compare favourably to the others.
 
For the record, the one I finally bought has 32% protein and 19% fat,
and although the second, third and fourth ingredients are "meat and meat
by-products derived from poultry and fish", "poultry digest", and "animal
tallow (beef and/or poultry)" (very ambiguous, huh?) it does list wheat
first (and this was the best thing I could find!).  Frankly, I'd be just
as happy to find a cat food product (or dog food, or whatever) which is
good, just so long as I can find /something/ which is good.  I doubt this
brand I have will do him any harm, but I want the best for him, as I'm
sure any pet owner can understand ^^
 
>Oh, yes....kibble is a little crunchy dry nugget of animal food.
 
Hehe, thanks ;p
 
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