The comment on adding Meow Mix to our assortment of high quality foods is half tongue in cheek, but only half. Ferrets did well then, but of course there could have been other components rather than diet or a combination of factors. Heck, for all I know (or anyone else knows) the neural crest disorder genetics so common now in North American ferrets could cause a sensitivity to some food components which wasn't present back then and certainly a person wouldn't want to put something hard to digest into a ferret who has IBD secondary to ECE... (BTW, for those who don't know, yes, we had early neuter ferrets back two decades ago here, too.) [Posted in FML issue 3954]