According to Swedish literature, polecats aren't 100%
carnivorous. They've been known to eat berries, fruit and honey.
 
As I see it, the danger of feeding them raisins and similar
things is mainly to their teeth, with them getting fat a
secondary risk. The vitamin C is water soluble, so it's pretty
hard to overdose. Fat soluble vitamins on the other hand, can be
overdosed.
 
Over here, conventional wisdom is that nothing we eat ourselves
is dangerous in itself to ferrets. But most of it either has too
little or too much of something to be really suitable.
--
 Urban Fredriksson  [log in to unmask]
 
[Posted in FML issue 0383]