Hopefully Kim could tell us how she freeze dries her ferret foods. Are
these foods semi-liquid, a viscous consistency or more like thin soup?
Is special freeze drying equipment needed?

Do you know Kim that wild/domestic/tame ferrets will eat every morsel
of their killed prairie dog (and other small mammalian) prey including
the stomach/intestinal contents? The whistle pig is closely related to
the marmot and both share a diet that is thought to be predominately
fibrous and combined with insects, their larvae, insect eggs and
detritus.

If one considers that the consumed herbivorous bolus can be in any
stage of progressive digestive, enzymatic dissolution - depending upon
its gut location in the alimentary canal - then salivary masticated
fiber and beyond to the near fecal herbivorous sludge is going to be
diverted through the ferret's alimentary circuit, as the ferret dines,
and without the functionality of the incipient intestinum caecum (L).
Do we conclude therefore that the ferret cannot benefit from consuming
herbivorous digest, especially when one pulls up the ancient adage that
the portal to the small intestine at the duodenum is lacking a defined,
ruminant fermentation sack, the vestigial cecum?

The ferret is not an elephant. Not even a horse. And eats like neither.
Not normally...but it can, to a limited extent, given the necessary
particularization and thermal bond rupturing of cellular confines.

Ferrets benefit mightily from vegetables, fruits, and some other
so-called prohibited food groups, but not in the normal cellulose
compounded glucose structures of natural plant growth.

Our methodology here at Ferret Endowment for Research, Rehabilitation,
Education, and Training Society, North West Foundation is simply stated
by two definers, to wit:

Definer No. 1. Particle Micro-miniaturization and Definer No.
2. Hyper-thermal Extraction

Edward Lipinski,
F.E.R.R.E.T.S.,N.W.Foundation 501(c)3 non-profit org under supervision 
of the National Heritage Foundation, Falls Church, VA 22044, nhf.org

Mehr kommt spaeter Damen und Herrn (G) Ladies and Gentlemen more to
come. [Yes, that's what I'm afraid of. BIG]

[Posted in FML 6068]