>Just ask someone who trains pitbulls for fighting (not something I >endorse, but have read too much about). These dogs are fed raw meat, >kittens, and small puppies to bring out the aggressive behaviour in them >so when they end up in a backyard fight, they only want to kill. These dogs are also beaten, abused, screamed at continuously, ignored, and starved. Two of my ferrets have killed mice, on their own, not by feeding. Both are just as loving and cuddly and sweet as ever before. Sandy, my most aggressive one, has never seen or smelled a mouse or other "prey animal." But when I first got her, she ripped the sh*t out of my hands with her teeth. Why? Because she had been abused, beaten, and left in a cage with very little human contact. My dad's cat used to bring home rabbits and mice and birds, show them to us, then devour them with fervor. Then she would clean herself, come inside, and cuddle around my neck purring and grooming my ears. The difference is not eating raw meat. The difference is in the amount of nurturing and human contact and tender loving care they get. As long as the ferrets are getting that, then bits of raw meat aren't going to change them. === Aileen & the herd Slinky, Gizmo, Kyle, Noel, & Sandy "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." [Posted in FML issue 2755]