ANNOUNCING THE LATEST FERRET FOOD FAD Well, I'm happy to tell you that Ramie and Chloe are feeling much better. I'm happy to tell EVERYone - I went to work and said, Guess what! My ferrets are eating again! (They weren't all that interested - but it's a human service organization, so they had to pretend to be...) A week + ago, after the predicted month with ECE, Ramie started to act like his old self again - playful, friendly. But he was still reluctant to eat - I'd been offering chicken baby food, sometimes mixed with kibble, and chicken gravy, which had been a great favorite. No thank you! (clenching his little teeth) Then one day I was eating my breakfast of oatmeal, bananas, & soy milk. Put the dish down. And there's Ramie - lick lick lick. Hmm. He always did like bananas... So I invented ferret oatmeal - Totally Ferret, soy milk, a mashed slice of banana, warmed in the microwave. Oh, he ate like he'd been starving for a month. Which, of course, he had been... It's a week later now, and he's eating his normal diet again - but he BEGs for soy milk. Sometimes I'll give him a little saucer of it. Oh boy, mom, thanks! Slurp slurp slurp Then there's Chlo. She has had a harder time getting better - I wrote to the list several times with questions (thank you again Bruce Williams for all your help! and all the others who responded to my many questions). She's getting a little prednisone now and with it has regained her appetite (and 1/8 of a pound so far). And what is the only thing she'll eat? Ferret oatmeal! (without the bananas, tho - fruit is yucky.) It's funny, because Chloe has always been EXTREMELY narrow minded about what she would eat - kibble and chicken gravy, and that's it. anything else? that's not food! But now? Soy milk, yum! The mixture has now had chicken baby food & acidophilus mixed in too... Well, whatever. I can wean them off the soy and back onto the chicken gravy once they are all fine again. For now I am just relieved to see them eat. And pleased to be on the cutting edge of: the Latest Ferret Food Fad! [Posted in FML issue 3323]