>From: CT Hart <[log in to unmask]> >>From: Nancy Hartman <[log in to unmask]> >> >> Minimal cow's milk/dairy products -- it gives them diarrhea, which >> can cause dehydration very quickly in ferrets. Goats milk is O.K. >> > Has anyone tried a lactose-free dairy product? > Does anyone know just what it is about cows milk that is bad? I guess one answer to that would be "Because it's made to be drunk by young bovines". As far as I can determine, milk isn't good for any adult mammals, and only a few exceptions can drink it at all. In Sweden, about 95% can drink milk, but on a world-wide scale, only 5% of humans can stand it. It is said that a requirement for that is that you never stop drinking it, which presumably goes for the English ferrets who are given it daily. -- Urban Fredriksson [log in to unmask] [Milk ain't the universal food. As relief agencies have occasionally found out disastrously - what were children dying from starvation end up dying in their weakened state from lactose induced diarhea and dehydration from reconstituted powdered milk.] [Posted in FML issue 0387]