Amy wrote: >Yesterday (and many other days) I spent an hour or so at a pet supply >store reading labels. I have been trying to wean my furkids off Purina >Kitten Chow for about 8 months now and wasting alot of more expensive >food in the process (I mix Purina KC, TF, and Eukanuba). Amy Sometimes with a stubborn ferret, you have to fool them a little. Purina Kitten Chow, IIRC, is a yellow, circular shaped food. TF and Euk are not similarly shaped - and she may not recognize them as food. Try instead, Pro Plan kitten chicken and rice - its almost the same color and shape as the PKC. If not, something thats a *little* better is Purina ONE. I was able to successfully switch a ferret from PKC to ONE then to Pro Plan, by slowly mixing them together, over a course of about 3 weeks. As far as why PKC is not recommended - the list of ingredients is the biggie for me - dyes, fillers and corn are my complaints with the food. The protein content is a tad low, but the fat - 8% - is terribly low. Minimum recommendations are 32% protein, 20% fat. Little, if any, protein is derived from meat - and why a ferret must eat so much of the food, and why the litter pan fills up so fast. If they can't digest it - they pass it through their systems - and corn is hard for a carnivore to digest. Hope that this helps... Lisa, Head Ferret The Ferret Haven "By-the-Sea" URL: http: www.kozykingdom.com/ferrethaven Want to help The Ferret Haven By-the-Sea? Register at iGive.com by cutting and pasting this link: http://www.iGive.com/html/ssi.cfm?CID=1236&MID=854 [Posted in FML issue 2726]