Edward Lipinsky wrote:

>2.) Fast your ferret to ensure that he is really hungry. Provide water
>only in a tin can of about 6 ounces. Let him mess it up, which he's
>likely to do. Right his water can through the cage bars with a steel
>rod so that you can refill his can by pouring water into it from a
>watering pitcher, syringe, or other hard pourer. Have no personal
>contact.
>
>3.) On the second or third fast day, do what you have to do to warmly
>liquefy his food. Make a soup of it viscous enough that it sticks on
>your finger thickly. Offer him a restricted amount of his normal food,
>now a soup, IN HIS CAN.

I'M SORRY BUT THIS IS SERIOUSLY THE MOST RIDICULOUS THING I HAVE HEARD
SINCE BEING ON THE FML FOR THE LAST 5 YEARS!

Do not, under any circumstances, fast your ferret for 2-3 days!!!!!!!!
I have never heard anything so crazy in my life! I'm sure no one would
do this but just in case anyone was thinking about it this can and will
create a serious health problem for even a healthy ferret. Ferrets eat
all day long and can not go longer than 4-6 hours without food. My vet
does not even recommend you fast a ferret for a BG test! Fasting a
ferret for 2-3 days is cruelty, plain and simple!!!

A ferret that begins to bite out of the blue needs a vet visit
immediately. There could be a serious medical problem. He could also
be adrenal. He is not to be fasted in a cage for 3 days. If you have a
ferret that bites, you treat them with love and respect, and you teach
them that hands and people are good. It takes alot of work and patience
but it can be done.

Lisa Vible
AFA Education Director

[Posted in FML 6213]