To Joycev. I understand you may not agree with feeding mice to my ferrets (although where do you think the pet food comes from? A dead animal is a dead animal, it's no less a dead animal just because it's so processed you can't recognise it), however I did not appreciate an abusive email telling me 'not to degrade this list with my shit'. I too have owned mice, rats and many other animals. However, these mice are going to die whether I get them or not; they might as well go to my ferrets as anywhere else. I feed my ferrets mice because it provides a full, balanced diet. The normal meat, the internal organs provide extra nutrition, and the bones and fur provide roughage. It provides a full all-around diet, and most of all they really like it. To the person who was concerned about the source; I am presuming, since I specified that the mice would be used for feed, that they would have the intelligence not to give me mice that had been tested on *grin*. Actually, the mice are not full grown, and I believe they are used to feed the actual labratory animals, so they would be more likely to be clean than petshop animals.. (and the fact the petshop owner might get a bit suspicious if I came in everyday asking for another couple of mice ;) ) - Reet [Posted in FML issue 2753]