Two simple questions: 1.) How much water is consumed per unit time by an individual ferret whose only source of water is from a typical 28 ounce/100 ml water bottle? The assumption here is that few if any provide an open watering dish within the ferret's cage. For those who do, the means of measuring water consumption may be grossly unreliable, if and when ferrets most often splash bowl water about. 2.) Need to know the transit time through the ferret GI tract (mouth to anus) of food typically fed to caged ferret. Latest estimate is 2 to 3 hours, as per literature. Can anybody with two different colored ferret foods provide this information by feeding 1/2 normal food amount of one colored food and, say 15 or 30 minutes later, feeding the second different colored food and placing the ferret under observation of feces expulsion over 2 to 3 hour period to record time when different colored feces are deposited? Water should be freely available. Edw. Lipinski -- Frettchen Freude [Posted in FML 5648]