On or thereabout 5/31/03, anna walker spoke thusly: >Minnie gets 152% protein from all 4 bags of ferret food mixed together >(zupreem,totally ferret,ferretstore,marshall farms) so she gets enough >protein. Minnie is NOT getting 152% protein. That is impossible. 100% protein would mean that there is nothing but protein in any of the foods. That would mean Minnie wasn't eating anything but pure protein, but if you read the ingredients labels of the foods, you'll see that's not the case. I don't know what the specific protein level on each of those foods are, but here is an example to show you how to figure out the real average protein level of Minnie's diet: Example food 1 has 30% protein Example food 2 has 24% protein Example food 3 has 40% protein Example food 4 has 20% protein That does not mean the total mixed diet has 114% protein. You need to add the protein amounts together, and then DIVIDE them by the number of foods on the list to find the average. My example would mean the diet had an average of 28.5% protein. If your five foods add up to 152% you need to divide that by 5, which gives you an average of 30.4% protein. That's not bad for kibble, but if the vet specifically recommended a high protein diet, you would probably want to substitute some of the kibble with a more meat-based food like chicken baby food or Bob Church's Chicken Gravy. There are also a number of freeze dried meat products on the market, which would also provide a protein boost to the diet. I feed 50% kibble and 50% "feline mini" freeze dried cat patties from petextras.com. It averages out to (if I remember correctly) ~50% protein, and 20%+ fat overall, which is probably closer to the levels your vet had in mind when he/she said "high protein diet." -- :: Teresa :: [Posted in FML issue 4165]