Dear Ferrets First Folx: I understand your frustration. I can't believe how spin-doctory that post from CC sounds! It basically uses bad logic to drive people to a point: - Shelters tend to use Totally Ferret (and other foods designed for ferrets) - Totally ferret isn't the only ferret designed food - Companion's Choice is a ferret food that has been tested on ferrets (It doesn't say designed for, just tested on and balanced) We should then make the leap that since people who 'care about ferrets' in the US and UK use ferret designed foods, these foods must be CC. it doesn't say ANY of the sources aprove of his food, but it implies strongly that they do. Good LORD, that is amazingly stupid! I'd like him to actually cite people who buy CC. Not this spin doctor wizardry, but a list of shelters who ENDORSE this product, their names, location and exact quotes on what they have to say about CC. Totally Ferret can, as can the old Iams, and no doubt a few other foods. I suspect much of the use of CC in the UK is due to the high cost and difficulty of getting TF or even 8in1 or Marshall's. Well, that's not the case here, so I wish him good luck. Frankly, I've heard not so nice things from UK ferret owners about this food, but I'd be willing to give it a break if this company was less apparently self serving and more concerned about how they're apearing to the international ferret community, who they obviously want to buy their product. As for the rice: The answer seems to be rice is more digestable, but cat food might be better for ferret with insoluma. This also takes into account that some ferret foods are sweetened to taste better to our sweet toothed pets. I had a friend with an insolimetic (is that right?) ferret who lived to the ripe old age of 8, 5 years after her diagnosis. She was kept on high quality cat foods, and didn't like sweet foods like the other ferrets would, so she had more problems with low blood sugar than the other end. This was coicidental, but since I've read in Modern ferret that those ferrets don't generally have such a long lifespan after diagnosis, there might be something to it. Melissa Drake [Posted in FML issue 3006]