On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:23:03 EST, Lisa Weisensale wrote: >Anyone have good treat ideas for a ferret with insulinoma? Peanut >loves the sugar and I feel terrible giving treats to 3 other ferrets-- >She actually looks up at me like "uh, mom?" Poor thing. I keep some grocery-store cat food (Meow Mix or something like that) on hand for my cats; although the cats are fed better food than that, they still like the cheap stuff for snacking. The ferrets, can't get to the main cat food feeding area, but they can get to the 'special' bowl I put the cheap food in, and they will steal food every chance they get. One day I was out of ferret treats and grabbed a few of the cat food kibbles. The kids loved it! So now it's one of my standard treats, and although it isn't a good ferret food, I think it's much better for them than other treats, such as raisins, cheerios, or yogis. I've also noticed that if there is a brand of ferret food that I haven't used for awhile, getting it becomes a 'treat'. I bought a sample-size bag of eukanuba kitten food, which two of my guys grew up on, and it lasted quite awhile as a treats. As far as offical treats are concerned, the Totally Ferret treats are very popular with my guys. I think they're essentially flavor-hyped ferret food. Claire (Sam, Frankie, and Missy are asleep, so they can't read how I'm fobbing them off with cat food) [Posted in FML issue 4100]