Barbara,
 
I work at a pet store and we have seen quite a number of them.  We sell
about one every week!  I have seen several VERY nippy ones, and like you
said they act like they are very hungry.  We get them from Marshall Farms,
and I have a very strong suspicion that they are taking them from their
mothers well before the eight weeks they claim.  It has turned out that
these ferrets really were hungry.  They were too young too handle dry food,
so we had to liquify it and mix in a little canned(too much gives them
diarreah-sp?).  In a couple of cases we actually had to force feed a
mouthful of the food - they didn't recognize it as food.  Once they got the
taste, they would chow down, and I mean chow down!  After a couple of days
of full tummies, they laid off a bit on the nipping.  Strangely enough the
only two cases of worms we have had come through(maybe three) were in albino
ferrets.  They were especially desperate for food.  Coincidence I guess.
Bye.
 
                                       Cinda
[Posted in FML issue 1513]