Theres a few things here an I don't care if I get flamed or not. First is the ferret foods, I am not gona change my ferrets or cats diets because someone tries to insist it isn't good for them, I live with mine so I know if it's good or bad. None of mine have died from starvation. None of mine are underweight either. They weigh the same as those of you who try to push your kind of food on us. Also as I stated earlier, purina animals foods were the very first foods for all animals, at that time there wasn't nothing else. Do your research . Another thing that bothers me is the way people push surgery for andrenal disease on people. I had a beautiful ferret named Spirit who had the surgy and guess what she died a year later. I have one here now named stormy, who has been hit with the dreaded disease, as soon as she started loseing fur I put her on oral melatonin[nothing else.] That was almost 3 years ago, she grew her fur in an her swelling went away. She is still with me and still doing great without the implants and luprin. I'm not gona contribut to a vets income when most of theses vets can't do anything for our babies anyway. All they do is experiment with there drugs and ways and get richer doing it. I've been thru alot of these cancers thru the years an unfortunatly the outcomes [even those of you that rush to vets everytime] is the same. When it's there time, it's there time. Vets can't change that. Also no one has a right to judge other people, on who has a right to own a animal,just because you don't do or feed your animals what they do. When I lived in California there was a article written about homeless people and there animals and in that article it was stated that there animals were healther then people who lived in homes and had alot of money. That didn't surprise me. People who don't have alot of money seem to know there animals and pay more attention to them. If you know your animals and they get sick you know what needs to be done an it gets done. I too am on a fixed income and have to stretch my money but me and my babies have never done without anything. Another thing about vets to that bothers me is they really don't care about animals more then there paycheck, be cause if you don't have the office fee first they turn you away. They do here at least and they don't take payments. so flame me all you want cos i don't care. I know all my babies are happy and well fed and are loved and payed attention to every day an except for Stormie all are healthy. [Posted in FML 6928]