Dear Ferret Folks- I've gotten a few e-mails about my post from yesterday, about feeding raisins. Me, I stopped feeding them as a treat quite a while back when the ASPCA animal poison control center announced their finding that raisins were certainly toxic for a number of dogs, and had in fact killed some outright. Grapes, too. Evidently there is something in them that can fatally damage a dog's kidneys. They strongly suggest not to feed raisins and grapes to companion animals, period. I searched the FML and FHL archives for information about raisin toxicity in ferrets, and I was mostly referred back to articles about raisins and dogs. It was pretty frustrating. There was nothing like "Only feed your ferret X number of raisins a day". I found a reference to a talk given at an IFC event about some case histories of ferrets poisoned by raisins, but could find no details of that talk. I found a reference to something printed about the issue in Ferrets Magazine, but again, no details of that article. I'm hoping that someone out there can provide the details that I could not find, because I simply could not respond usefully to some of the e-mails I got. Now, Ping did not read the ASPCA bulletin, and that might be why he helped himself to a as many raisins out of the bag of trail mix I left out as he could possibly stuff into his little face. And Puma, well, I gave her two for nostalgic reasons. I miss feeding raisins. I was going to let them each have a few more before I tossed the bag, but my husband found it first and now it's EMPTY. Am I going to go out and buy more raisins? Nope.Unlike Ping, I *did* read the ASPCA bulletin, and no ferret ever died from a lack of raisins. Read it for yourself. <http://www.aspca.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=16645> Alexandra in MA [Posted in FML issue 5158]