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Sukie Crandall <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:36:28 -0500
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While the risk of contracting diseases or having injuries from raw meat
and bones is low, it does exist.  The problem is that when it happens
the diseases encountered are so often very difficult to treat and too
often fatal.  If a person checks in the FML and FHL Archives there will
be repeated comments found by at least a half dozen vets (having counted
them in the past) on just how hard it is to save a ferret with
salmonella, how bad intestinal avian TB can be to treat, how death of all
potentially infected animals is typical (and in many countries mandatd)
with intestinal bovine TB, and even how an E.  coli infection is too
often not a walk in the park.
 
Choices are individual.  Read fully, especially things by the veterinary
experts, on both sides of this topic, weigh the risks, and then make your
own choices.  For some reason the closest thing many food discussions too
often parallel in posters' behavior after a while is discussions on
religious choices, and often with the same pitfalls (sadly not joking).
Just know that it is your choice and there is nothing which is perfect.
 
Our own personal choice is not to feed raw because even with a low
infection rate I know too danged much about the illnesses involved, but
others will make entirely different choices, and making one's own choices
on this at this stage of lack of reputable information is akin to there
being nothing wrong with a person choosing to be an Animist, or a Muslim,
or a Buddhist, or a Jew, or a Christian, or... In other words, without
enough data a lot of what anyone chooses if based on faith, no matter how
the person may paint it.  It is a personal choice, hopefully based on
information about the ups and the downs of each of the possible choices,
and hopefully then the person making her or his own selection with an
open mind and tolerance.
 
As Darwin wrote (but he looked at the other side of the "The more I
know, the more I realize that there is to learn." equation: "Ignorance
more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
 
-- Sukie (not a vet)
Ferret Health List co-moderator
http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/ferrethealth
FHL Archives fan
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
replacing
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org
International Ferret Congress advisor
http://www.ferretcongress.org
[Posted in FML issue 5157]

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