No advice on home made food but i just had to respond to the idea that
ferrets are more susceptible than cats/dogs to salmonella because they
have been domesticated so long. Ferrets, so far as we know, have only
been domesticated for 2000 years, dogs and cats have been domesticated
far longer than that.

For most of the time that ferrets have been domesticated they have been
working animals, being fed on raw whole rabbit, if they were lucky, and
very little at all at times,so I hardly think that domestication has
had time in their development to give them a more delicate digestive
system than dogs/cats.

Mary
http://bristolferretclub.btik.com

[Posted in FML 6246]