Shona wrote: >And as I said before: accidental injuries / deaths, not deaths overall. Choking on kibble is not unusual, but virtually never serious. Shona, I think that you were rushed and recalled the resource but missed the focus. You will notice that his category was accident -- NOT death -- and that DEGREE never played into it. As he writes: >Also, since this is a discussion of risk, not mortality, I made no >distinction between death and injury, or even the degree of injury. It doesn't surprise me at all that Bob found mentions of a number of people talking about ferrets glacking on their kibble. That happens pretty often when they rush so we have all seen it mentioned in that regard a number of times (and we've certainly in our family encountered the same minor accident for non-kibble solid foods of other types when they rush, too, as we have personally seen with kibble). Here's the past post you used: http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0305&L=FERRET-SEARCH&P=R19853 [Posted in FML issue 4785]