Hiyos from New Orleans!

[mandy]

Or at least right outside of New Orleans. I stumbled upon this forum earlier today in my ever expanding search of ferrety knowledge and thought this might be a good place to learn some stuff!

I've been planning to try to switch my two ferts over to a more natural diet or at least supliment their current one with some raw goodies. (It was hard enough to talk my grandmother-in-law to allow Ollie and Izzie into the house.. I don't see her letting me keep micecicles in her freezer -_-;; ) For the present I was thinking of learning a bit more about what -is- alright to give them so that I'll at least be more informed when I am able to switch them over to the raw side.

But for now... FERRET SPAM!

[glow=hotpink,2,300]<Isabella "Izzie" left, Oliver "Ollie" right>[/glow]

[Forum Administrator]

Hi Mandy!



We are glad to have you here!

To start you on your research of more natural diets for ferrets I would recommend checking out the following:

1.) The Yahoo! Group, Natural Ferrets:
pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NaturalFerrets/

2. “Bob Church’s Diet 101 Series”
This is a series of posts made by zooarchelogist, Bob Church, to the Ferret Mailing List (FML) circa 1998. To read these posts in the proper order, please start from the bottom of the list and work your way up.
listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?S2=ferret-search&q=&s=%28diet+101
%29&f=[e-mail]&a=&b=

3. “Re-Thinking The Ferret Diet” by Susan Brown DVM
www.veterinarypartner.com/Content.plx?P=A&A=479

4. “Natural Ferret Care” by Christie Keith
www.exotichobbyist.com/NaturalFerret.html

5. Recommended Reading on Natural Ferret Care:www.exotichobbyist.com/articles/CritterHobbyist/NaturalFerretBooks.ht

6. “Is a Natural Diet Right For Your Ferret?” by The Dr. Foster and Smith Educational Staff www.drsfostersmith.com/pic/article.cfm?c=17342&articleid=1971

7. “Towards A More Natural Ferret Diet: Whole Prey and Raw Foods” by Lianne McLeodexoticpets.about.com/od/ferretcare/i/naturaldiets.htm

8. Ferrets For Dummies: 2nd Edition by Kim Schilling
This book has a section in the nutrition chapter about natural diets for ferrets. This book can be purchased (for dirt cheap!) at the following link:
www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0764552597/ref=dp_olp_2

9. “What’s For Dinner” by Danee Devore (This article is from Ferret’s Magazine.)
The issue of Ferrets Magazine that contains Ms. Devore’s Article can be purchased at
the following link:
www.dook-dook.com/readingroom.html

Of course, our forum itself is a wealth of info on natural diets. Feel free to post any specific questions you may have regarding natural diet, here:

holisticferret.proboards80.com/index.cgi?board=newbquest


Once you are ready to start adding natural foods to your ferret's diet, we will moniter your progress and help you every step of the way, and beyond.

Feel free to PM (private messgage) me or any of the members with the title "Holistic Ferret Mentor" under their user name.

I hope you enjoy yourself here. We are here to help with anything you might need. Thank you for considering a more natural diet for your ferrets!

[Forum Administrator]

BTW- Your babies are adorable

[mandy]

*finishes setting up avi and siggy*

Thanks and double thanks! I already have the Ferrets for Dummies book and that's been my only source of information until now. It seems like there are new ferret communities popping up all over the place! I'll definatly be browsing some of those links.

And btw, those ferret emotes are full of awesome!

[Forum Administrator]

lol thanks. I love the emoticons, and we are adding new ones all the time when I get a little extra cash here and there) the forum artist, Polawat Darapong did a great job! He's a Thailand based artist. You can check out his gallery here (he can do such a WIDE range of art its insane! The emoticons on this site look NOTHING like the work in his gallery, but he's able to do a bunch of different drawing styles:

polawat.deviantart.com/

He's got really afforable rates and can do commisions if you ask nicely I sent him a pic of Hendrix (in my siggy) and lugnut (in my siggy) and he combined them to create the ferret in the Holistic Ferret Logo. He could probably even do drawings of people's ferrets. He rocks lol

[mandy]

Wow. o.o

I could probably make some icons like that if given enough motivation (those graphic arts classes are good for something at least) but I'm no where near as talented as that.

I'm a sucker for ferret art though. I'm running a contest on Gaia Online right now to get more arts of my two. =3

[buzzonesbirdie]

Hello and welcome.

YOur two are sooo cute!

It is amazing how much info there is out there about these cute fuzzies isn't it!!

[nwheather]

Welcome! I have to keep my "micicles" in a few layers of bags, in the bottom of the freezer, so my hubby doesn't have to look at them. LOL

[tako]

Welcome to the forum! Izzy and Ollie are so d**n cute!

[weloveourweasels]

Your babies are adorable. I love the bib on Ollie and Izzie looks just like my Rolo Brown. What show does your avatar come from? I love it to.

[meli]

so glad to have you here!

[dalamar]

Hello there! I am also from New Orleans (when I saw your post I actually thought it was mine. lol) Your babies are very cute!

It was hard enough to talk my grandmother-in-law to allow Ollie and Izzie into the house.. I don't see her letting me keep micecicles in her freezer.

I bought a refigerator/freezer for mine. It was about $180 after taxes and well worth the money. I have no intention of putting mice in with my regular food, and I think my roommate would have a stroke if he opened the freezer and saw dead mice staring back at him.

Enjoy your babies, did I mention how cute they are?

[Heather]

Hi and welcome
You will find a lot of information here and if you check out all those addys that Guili gave you. I store my ratcycles in the plastic cookie containers (now it does present some surprises to a son who is forever hungry and will occasionally run a raid on the freezer for goodies ) You don't have to feed whole prey, ground mixes work just as well, they're not the best but they're far better than the dry kibble stuff. My guys get the whole thing....ground raw, both pre-fab and homemade, chunks and whole meats, and finally whole prey. Each method has it's own merit and most of the time is easily worked in to fairly decent feeding schedule. Feel free to ask questions, we're here to help out
ciao

[jennifer5799]