Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2011 0:44:58 GMT -5
Hey everyone,
My name is Steph and I'm not a ferret owner as of current but I'm hoping to be a ferrant sometime soon and want to learn all I can about ferrets and about hollistic care before I adopt!
I work at a vet clinic and all of my other critters (cats and dogs) are on special prescription veterinary food for their many health issues (so can't consider hollistic or raw for them sadly) but I also own hedgehogs and am working on switching them to a more balanced natural diet (they do still need some kibble however as their nutritional needs arent as well known as ferrets) as well as switching myself to a more natural / hollistic diet since being diagnosed this past month with some major digestive issues (severe Irritable Bowel Syndrome aka IBS and Gastroesophagael reflux disease aka GERD)
I am immuno-compromised as well (I had H1N1 back in sept '09 - and although I was never dangerously ill from it, my new doctor tells me my lymph nodes are still full of scar tissue and my immune system still weakened from the virus - apaprently they are just now finding out that this virus can cause immune system issues up to 5 years later - yikes!) so I definitely need to be 100% educated and safe before considering trying raw foods (but seeing as I just spent the morning packaging and freezing my own raw meats - I'm not too worried as long as I take the right precautions).
Other than that, now that you know my life story
I have NO idea where to start in creating the right ferret diet and hope that I can learn all that I need to know from this forum 
~ CarpetSharks37 (PS "Carpet shark" is seriously the cutest ferret nickname ever!!
)
My name is Steph and I'm not a ferret owner as of current but I'm hoping to be a ferrant sometime soon and want to learn all I can about ferrets and about hollistic care before I adopt!
I work at a vet clinic and all of my other critters (cats and dogs) are on special prescription veterinary food for their many health issues (so can't consider hollistic or raw for them sadly) but I also own hedgehogs and am working on switching them to a more balanced natural diet (they do still need some kibble however as their nutritional needs arent as well known as ferrets) as well as switching myself to a more natural / hollistic diet since being diagnosed this past month with some major digestive issues (severe Irritable Bowel Syndrome aka IBS and Gastroesophagael reflux disease aka GERD)
I am immuno-compromised as well (I had H1N1 back in sept '09 - and although I was never dangerously ill from it, my new doctor tells me my lymph nodes are still full of scar tissue and my immune system still weakened from the virus - apaprently they are just now finding out that this virus can cause immune system issues up to 5 years later - yikes!) so I definitely need to be 100% educated and safe before considering trying raw foods (but seeing as I just spent the morning packaging and freezing my own raw meats - I'm not too worried as long as I take the right precautions).
Other than that, now that you know my life story
I have NO idea where to start in creating the right ferret diet and hope that I can learn all that I need to know from this forum ~ CarpetSharks37 (PS "Carpet shark" is seriously the cutest ferret nickname ever!!
)
...but...we dont...our fuzzes they're work in progress 
Sometimes the hardest thing about natural feeding is trying to wrap ourselves around the misconceptions and sometimes outright lies that we've been told throughout our lives and actually seeing and understanding the actual truths and why they've been hidden.
In fact.... there are a couple of ferrets being given away down south near you and Sherry 
but that sucks you can't use the whole cage, hopefully they'll figure it out eventually