>From: "marie i. schatz" <[log in to unmask]> >I am thinking about a dog and/or cat but have free roam ferrets. How do >you keep the animals from eating each others food? Also am wondering if >some dog breeds are better than others. I'm not necessarily interested in >a pure bred per se but rather just get a dog that needs a home, but what if >it doesn't work? Are puppies better? My ferrets raised a baby cat, with great success...they were best buddies. Charlie the cat (until my brother moved away with him to Idaho) used to turn all the extra energy he got from eating the fert's high-octane food into pure muscle. For a fairly small cat, he was outrageously strong. We watched for signs of him getting fat on fert-food. Had that happened, we had plans for putting the cat's food on a table or other place the ferts couldn't jump up to, and put the fert-food in a box with a smallish opening, and do a shared water dish. They'd eat the ferret-grade food right out of the same bowl at the same time, with no squabbling. A dog would be harder to do seperate food with, and more critical. Cats can do fine on fert-food, even "superstuff" like Totally Ferret, as long as you watch their weight. Charlie turned into Arnold Shwartzencat(sp?) on similar stuff...which made bathtime pure hell... [Posted in FML issue 1636]