We just received a 1.5 year old ferret to foster until there is room at the rescue. He was given up because the owner feared for his life. Two other ferrets, including this guy's cage mate were killed by the family dogs. Infact we believe he himself was attacked and injured requiring vetrenary care. We are calling him Lucky. He doesn't seem to be interested in the kibble food we've offered (ZuPreem, Sheppard and Green, and 8 in 1). We've been feeding him chicken baby food and our homemade duck soup and trying to soften up the kibble in hopes he'll start eating it. Does anyone know of any methods to convice ferrets that the food they have in their dish is really food? We know that some ferrets will imprint on one type of food and will not eat any other. We don't know what food he was on before and we're afraid that maybe it was dog food, but we have no way of knowing. We have 11 ferrets of our own and we would keep Lucky safe here with us, but 4 of our 11 ferrets don't accept new ferrets. They attack them fairly aggessivly and we don't want to subject Lucky to any more attacks. We tried the whole group once and he was aggressivly attacked by one of the four, we broke it up right away, but you could see the fear in Lucky's eyes. For now when we have playtime, we have two play areas where the 4 and Lucky are kept separate and we rotate the other 7 between the two play areas. Does anyone have a method which will help the four accept Lucky? We've been able to bring in, new ferrets before, but it takes months for them to become part of the group. During those months we spend a lot of time protecting and breaking up fights. We try and let the fights run their course as long as they are not too sever. We just don't think it right to leave Lucky to fend for himself after the life he's already had. Thank you Mike [Posted in FML 6008]