QUESTION:
I'm 11 and am thinking of getting a ferret. I had one before but it died. I was wondering if meat will make the ferret bite if it had been trained not to bite?

ANSWER:
FERRETS ARE CARNIVORES (MEAT EATERS) their diet should be a high MEAT protein diet. When they are young they practice biting each other to prepare themselves to kill their prey, which is small rodents, rabbits and birds. If we handle them from a young kit and food is always available to them, they have no need to bite! You should be able to feed them raw or cooked meat, but you must feed them a ferret food, high in meat protein to balance the diet. In the wild they would be eating the fur, skin, bones, intestines etc.. of the animal, so if we feed only meat, it would not have all the necessary ingredients to complete the ferret diet. On my website is the next best food to the real 'wild diet' ARCHETYPAL1 and ARCHETYPAL2.