I am not sure if this debate even belongs on a ferret list, but since it has been allowed to go so far.... Who ever or what ever created life, had the good sense to create a chain of life, each step using the next as food. Predator eating prey...prey eating grass...etc. Each has its own niche in the world and its own unique survival needs. One cannot decide for any reason, religious, moral or whatever, to removed an animal, in this case a ferret, from its proper place and put it in another. To try to make an obligate carnivore into a vegetable eating animal goes again all that has been created and made for several million centuries. You will fail and your ferret will suffer. Judith Moon, owner Moonsong Ferrets http://moonsongferrets.virtualave.net Our ferrets are bred & raised to be companions. Try a totall flame free ferret list at: http://www.onelist.com/group/moonsongferrets [Posted in FML issue 3009]