Hi folks, I noticed everyone has been posting about duck soup and Gerber baby food lately, just wanted to throw my two cents in. Late last year I had a ferret with DIM, although we didn't know it at the time. He couldn't eat kibble, he couldn't eat much of anything. I scoured the archives and the web for duck soup receipes and all mentioned Gerbers. When I had my kids (human kids that is) I always made their baby food myself because it was so much cheaper. Why wouldn't that work for ferts? We eat chicken fairly regulary so I boned out a roaster and ground the meat up in my blender. Because it had been baked there wasn't much liquid to it so I added Pedialyte and used the blender on the 'whip' setting. I got a nice soupy mixture. The next time I needed more soup I bought 4 chicken thighs. Instead of baking, I boiled them. Everyone knows that boiling takes nutrients out of food so instead of dumping the stock down the drain, I boned out the meat, put it in the blender and used the stock for moisture. Again I used the 'whip' setting. In a seperate bowl I mixed 1 cup of kibble (MF at the time) and enough Pedialyte to make it mushy and a full can of Hills A/D. Then I dumped the whole mess together in the blender and thoroughly mixed it. I took the amount of soup I had in the blender, determined how much Whitey would eat per day, usually 30-40ccs per feeding times 5-6 feedings a day and to this I added the appropriate amount of Slippery Elm Bark to cover all those feedings. And mixed it thoroughly again. He needed Slippery Elm Bark because of ulcers and it gave the soup a nice smell that enticed him to eat. I also added several ccs of liquid vitamin B or Pet Tinic. I never froze this because between his special feedings and the other ferts that thought it was great, I used it all up within two to three days. But I'm sure several days worth could be frozen in seperate small ziplock baggies and thawed out on a per feeding basis. Whitey survived on this concoction for two months before his heart succumbed to the DIM. This was alot cheaper than buying baby food and not difficult to make at all, and I hate to cook. If there was ever any left over, which was rare, the neurotic dogs ate it so none went to waste :-) Leslie [Posted in FML issue 4809]