To Bethie and Pixie: All those foods you mentioned are fine for ferrets. You can mix and match them if you like and get your ferrets to like more than one, which might come in handy if they ever get sick and you have to make a mushlike substance from their food to feed them. The main thing to avoid are cheap cat foods. It's a bit extreme to say that ferrets from pet stores are in danger. There is some evidence that European ferrets live longer, and they are not fixed until they are a little older (around four months of age, I think). But no one's done a definitive study to prove it (that I know of), and many ferrets, especially female, are saved by being fixed before being sold (that way they can't go into heat and develop atoxic anemia, a usually fatal condition). Males that are not fixed and go into heat can become very aggressive and dangerous to other ferrets. In my personal opinion, if Pixie seems healthy and active and she eats and she drinks and her stools look normal, there's no need to take her to the vet. Unless of course she hasn't had all her shots (canine distemper and rabies). Dooks and ferret hugs, Linda, Espie, Frankie, Lucky Charm, and Angel [Posted in FML issue 1416]