I'm not even sure why I'm sticking my nose into this very heated
debate. The whole Raw VS. Kibble debate is extremely passionate. It
is a shame that it can get so heated. What it really comes down to
is that we want to best for our ferrets.

I wish to keep my email off this debate because I do not wish to have
my inbox flooded with responses but I felt my story is a little
important.

When I got one of my most recent kit, the pet shop owner told me that I
should feed raw if I wanted to keep him healthy. I owned ferrets for 7
years prior to him and wanted to give a better life for my ferrets.
After research and discussions with Raw Feeders, I decided to take on
the diet.

The whole thing was new to me. I was not about to switch my elder girl
off her kibble. She is highly allergic to many things and I feared a
switch would do more damage than good in her state. The idea of feeding
a piece of meat, with bones, freaked me out! I did so anyway.

When this kit turned 6 months, he had to have a bottom K9 removed. It
was hollowed out and filled with gasses. The tooth and the gum looked
fine, it was the marble sized abscess on his chin that showed the sign.

After this I switched him off the diet.

The raw diet and his tooth problem might not been linked... but I
couldn't help but thinking that he was not getting the right balance of
food, nutrition and vitamins while growing. I thought I followed the
diet: at least 3 different types of protein, with bones, organs, etc.
He even had access to commercial frozen raw cat food. But I feel that
my decision in diet made this happen to him.

I took him off the diet since then. He now happily chops away at his
kibble and chunky soup with his three K9s.

[VM]

[Posted in FML 6894]