>I was thinking of allowing my ferrets to hunt mice and eat them, of
>course the mice will be petstore bought and given to the ferrets so
>they many kill and eat them.
 
You may as well just stick a lump of meat on a piece of string and wave
it around as the mice you will be using will have a much instinct to hide
or get away from your ferrets as the lump of meat would.
 
Now this would be different if you used your ferret to hunt wild vermin,
such as rats or mice and I dare say that your nebiours would thank you
for doing it.
 
>It's a natural fact of life and I've read so many good things about
>ferrets eating natural food like that, but I like to get the opinion
>of other owners up front.
 
If you wish to feed a more natural food why not start by feeding raw
mince.  My butcher will mince whole chickens for me so the ferrets get
both flesh and bone, I also get green tripe from the slaughter house as
well as the lungs, spleen, liver and heart of sheep all of this I mince
at home and feed to my cats, dogs and ferret.  Now what can be more
natural than that and doing it this way plus no defenceless tame mice
are made to suffer.
[Posted in FML issue 4242]