Meats: I know that some say that feeding overt meat causes biting, but the evidence against that hypothesis abounds. We've never seen any difference. Here we use times out for biting and are consistent about it and have no biting problems. Okay, Scooter will bite when a catheter is removed post-surgically, but I felt like biting when mine have come out, too. (In 20 years that is the best technique we've found to stop biting.) What food terms mean: Go to: http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/ Once there search under the terms and read info from Dr. Tom Willard whose doctorate is in the topic and you'll get (Forgive me, please.) the straight poop. There is info from him and from vet, Dr. Jerry Murray on starch components in there, too, as well as a highly recommended set of letters from JM on fish oils. That site above, which holds complete archives from the Ferret Health List, and the Ferret Health List http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/ferrethealth are good places when medical questions such as diet ones arise, and the archives for the FML http://listserv.cuny.edu/archives/ferret-search.html also answers many of these questions which regularly repeat, as well as some extremely uncommon ones. (For instance, in both the FHL Archives and Files there is info on A/V Heart Node Block to be found -- even meds for managing with Level 3 (complete) ones for as long as possible, even though most vet cardiologists consulted have no ferret experience on this so a vet would have to search around when time is lacking to find info. The info available is from those who worked with the one set of veterinary cardiologists found who have such experience with ferrets and what has worked so far for affected ferrets.) [Posted in FML issue 3870]