>Need to know the food transit time through the ferret's gut from mouth to
>anus.  Anybody out there got some solid data on this?  Also how does the
>ferret's food transit time compare to that of its close mustelidaceous
>relative the skunk?
 
>"Mustelidaceous" - you like that word, yes?  I just now made it up.
 
Cute word.
 
I have been told it is about three hours by vets in the past.
 
Have no data to compare with for skunks.  Although I could have sworn
I saw something about a year ago that it had been decided that skunks
are not mustelida?
[Posted in FML issue 2515]