For the person who asked if Totally Ferret is a good food, I'd like to offer my wholehearted recommendation. It is an EXCELLENT food. Totally Ferret also has a great record of offering lots of free donations of food to ferret shelters - many of the shelters in New England have benefited from their generosity. So when you buy Totally Ferret, you're not only buying a top-notch food for your ferret, you're supporting a company that makes an effort to lend a helping hand to ferret shelters who are struggling with the cost of helping abandoned fuzzies. Totally Ferret contains chicken as the main ingredient, as opposed to 8-in-1 (which ferrets love for the raisin-ey taste but has too much corn and fiber for my liking) and I've seen a couple of ferret foods on the shelves that are so full of dried fruits and little colorful corn puffs that they look like kids' breakfast cereals!! Marshall Farms diet has the recommended amount of protein for a ferret, but the protein comes from fish. Aside from fish not being part of a ferret's "natural diet" (which would consist of small rodents and birds, not salmon), the fishy oils give the ferret an overall slightly "fishy" odor that many owners find objectionable. Not just the poops - their glands start giving off a fishy smell too. Ferrets do tend to like Marshalls, and it breaks down easier for duck soup because it's crumbly, but ferrets should actually have a crunchier food than that anyway. Like dogs and cats, ferrets need to crunch on dry food to maintain tooth and gum health (in the wild they'd be crunching on bones and this would suffice, unfortunately our domestic babies need our common sense to fill in!). If you can't get TF in your area, it's available online in a lot of places. Now that my ferrets are over the age of 4, I offer them both a bowl of regular TF and a bowl of the TF for older ferrets (green bag). They seem to prefer both equally, and I like to give them a little variety without upsetting their stomachs! -Heather Massachusetts [Posted in FML issue 3623]