Was in a reading mood couple days ago, so went looking for a fantasy book with dragons and magic and a happy ending. stop at 3 chapters bookstore before coming across this one call "the last dragonlord" by joanne bertin. I was contemplating whether to get it or not when I look at the inside cover and saw a picture of the author --- with her ferret. That did it. The book was great, no actual ferrets characters, but 2 references to a ferret. If you like McCaffrey's Pern series you will probably like this. Think I'm not the only one here who will buy a book because the author's photo had her ferret (cute ferret too, but then all ferrets are cute). Just curious if anybody here feed their ferrets homemade4life. I followed a link on the fml and checked out the food a few months ago, like what I saw, and since then, my ferrets have been getting it almost every night. I'm just curious about the differences between raw and cooked food, since there is this study (Pottenger's cats from the 70's) that suggests cats do much better on a raw meat diet. I feed the ferrets homemade4life raw, and they really like it. Birch filled out a bit since I started feeding them that, but it might not be food related. The kibble they get is TF and Sensible Choice kitten. Here's the info for homemade4life: www.homemade4life.com Guanteed Analysis "as fed basis" for Home Made 4 Life Cat/Ferret Food (75% meat and 25% Vegetables and other Whole Foods) NUTRIENT Lamb Recipe Chicken Recipe Protein (Min) 12% 15% Fat (Min) 28% 7% Fiber (Max) 1% 1% Ash 1% 1% DM 45% 26% Moisture (Max) 55% 74% Ca:P Ratio between 1.24:1 between 1.24:1 and and 1.44:1 1.44:1 human-grade ground lamb or chicken meat, organ meat (heart and liver); finely ground, real bones; ground, whole carrots; ground broccoli; ground, whole cabbage; ground, whole sweet potatoes (yams); powdered organic alfalfa; powdered organic kelp; farm-fresh whole eggs (including shells); ground whole apples; fresh minced, garlic; raw honey; ground organic flax seeds; and Grapefruit Seed Extract. I have only fed them the chicken recipe, I think the lamb is fairly new (couple of months, at most). Also picked up a nutrition booklet at Petsmart over the weekend. They had some thing about extruded kibble and oven baked kibble, with oven baked being better. Does anybody know anything about this? thanx. have a warm and fuzzy day. // *********************************************** // Selina, Birch, Dief, Sprite, Storm, Sand & Bear // http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~ssiu [Posted in FML issue 3140]