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Post by lnsybean44 on Oct 5, 2009 22:18:37 GMT -5
I am glad he got over it and is eating mice for you. I still cant eat cheese omelets (or ritz crackers with cheese because the smell reminds me) from a time I threw up on Good Friday in the church parking lot when I was 7. It was 14 years ago and even the thought still makes me sick but the smell will make me gag.
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Post by ferretfreke on Oct 6, 2009 0:44:53 GMT -5
That is a long time. I've usually gotten over my vomit aversions after about a year. Well, the thought or smell of tequila still makes my stomach churn though.
He still isn't eating mice very well. I fed them all mice quite a bit last week and I don't think he ate much if any cus he lost 4-5 ounces. I need to watch him more closely.
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Post by sherrylynne on Oct 6, 2009 18:50:58 GMT -5
Will he take the pinkies chopped and mixed with his other meat, or does he just pick around them yet?
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Post by ferretfreke on Oct 7, 2009 0:50:56 GMT -5
I'm out of pinkies right now so I haven't been able to try chopping them up and mixing them in stuff yet. I thought I sill had some. It's time for a rodentpro order. If I can ever build up to feeding the live mice I have, that seems to work well. Each time I feed him one live he seems to eat more than the last time, if that makes sense. I got 10 live mice for free from someone and fed 5 of them right away and the rest of the group I've now had for a few weeks because I'm having a hard time giving them to the ferrets after watching them and taking care of them. It sucks! Because I'm going to start my own colony soon and I'm failing already. I think a big reason it's hard is because one of the last times I fed live the ferrets decided to torture the mice that day and I felt horrible about that. It was really bad. My girl, Alitasha was chewing the skin off of one of them while it was still alive and Unagi decided to stand on one and scratch the hell out of it. The next time they weren't as cruel, but it has still been harder for me since. I don't know what their deal was that day. Maybe they weren't that hungry, but even then you'd think they still would want to make the kill.
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Post by Heather on Oct 16, 2009 21:48:34 GMT -5
It's difficult, you have to think of them as food for your furbabies...they're not pets . For the most part ferrets appear to be just and quick killers but I do know what you're talking about. I've encountered a few times where they're little minds aren't on the hunt or at least the kill. I don't know if they're not hungry, not interested or just having a bad day It's disturbing, but unfortunately part of feeding live prey. I'm lucky in that if one ferret isn't on the game another one will pick up the slack and do the kill anyway. ciao
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Post by ferretfreke on Oct 16, 2009 23:08:18 GMT -5
I wonder if it's like the Orca whales that play with the baby seals before finally killing it. Or cats with mice. That's always been a disturbing part of nature to me, but if I think of it as natural when my ferrets "play" with their food before the kill, it helps me a little. Not much, but a little. I finally did feed the remaining four mice. They killed them almost instantly, phew. Unagi is eating frozen/thawed mice since too! I got my first breeding group and we'll see how I do when it comes to feeding them.
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Post by Heather on Oct 17, 2009 22:31:42 GMT -5
Great stuff, you will do ok when the time comes...you'll see . ciao
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