Hi all!
Its spring again and the ferrets are doing a lot of changing right now.  I
know that one of the major changes that is happening in the ferrets is
weight changes.  I have two ferrets and they are both changing a lot right
now.  Taz has lost a lot of weight, but I am not worried about that.  He is
still quite active and I have read that they can lose up to about 40% of
their body weight in the spring.  The one that confuses me is TJ.  He has
been eating like a pig and has become quite rolly-polly.  I remember
somebody mentioning that the way to tell if your ferret is fat is to hold
them up by their front feet/shoulder area and let then hang.  They should be
sleek.  Well, TJ is beginning to bulge a little.  Right now I am just
planning on watching them for a while, but the question that persists is how
do you put one on a diet and not the other one?  They live in the same cage
and I free feed them.
 
Thanks for the info.
 
Ellen
Taz (now that I'm skinny again, I can get into more places.)
TJ (I'm not fat! there is just more of me to love.)
[Posted in FML issue 1549]