PS We have also now or then had a ferret who was prone to catching kibble in the palate (and it seems that some individuals do this more often than others despite food type or shape). The same individuals have done the palate sticking problem for pieces of cartilage, too. None of ours in 24 years with ferrets has ever had this result in anything serious, either, and I have only heard of one person mentioning any palate injury and that was in the same letter from the same person briefly also speaking of the only case I have ever heard of a ferret being reported as having a serious choking incident with kibble. Oh, speaking of cartilage: since the mouth feel of cartilage tends to so well appeal to many ferrets we have found that it sometimes can be a great way to introduce a meat type -- just give a good cooked chunk of cartilage with a tiny bit of meat. [Posted in FML issue 4785]