It is preferable to have your ferret lick your finger. If you plan to syringe feed, you should be very careful and be aware that if the food goes the wrong way (goes into the instead of in the stomach), the ferret can get aspiration pneumonia. Lorraine Tremblay Our current ferrets: Pitchou (F, deaf silver), Boulette (F) & Jello (F) Ferrets who shared our life since 1993: Dynamo (F), Pepe La Pew (F), Presto (F), Sanka (F), Mukluk (F), Snoreau (M), Boum Boum (M, deaf DEW), Qannik (M), Piccolo (F), Kodiak (M), Sol (M), Maboul (M), Mordicus Maximus (M) & Typhon (M) [Posted in FML 5990]