Here's an odd one for you, my 3 year old male ferret is a vegetarian. Oh, I'm well aware that there are processed meat products in the high protien kitten food we feed him, but he hasn't much choice in that. He'll eat anything except raw or cooked meat on it's own. We tried to give him a small peice of chicken and he recoiled so much he almost fell off my wife's knee (it was cold of course). We give him a small peice of celery or carrot and he'll happily drag it off and eat it like it was his favourite treat. He like's celery, carrot, potato (more than one of which he's dragged under the deep freeze for later munching), asparagus, and brussell sprouts. After all that, if we try to feed him meat, he won't have anything to do with it and either recoils or acts dissinterested. We've tried ground beef, fish, chicken, pork and egg both cooked and "half cooked". I think he's got wierd taste budds because we tried "Bitter Apple" once to keep him from biting his cage bars and although he curled his lip when he did it, he proceeded to lick it from both the bars and my fingers. Aaron Watson [Posted in FML issue 3810]