I've also been doing some reading on raw ferret diets. A ferret shelter near me feeds raw and if you adopt from them you have to promise to continue feeding raw. Anyway, I really like the idea of feeding them a more "natural" diet without all the fillers and stuff in kibble; however, I'm just not sure I can stomach having them tear into a rat or mouse. I mean my snakes eat rats whole so there's no blood....but the ferrets....I just don't know. Do they eat the whole thing or are there scraps of stuff left? Also, do they get like bloody? Do you think they would eat frozen/ thawed ones? Or just frozen ones without being thawed? (not as much blood?) Sorry of all the questions about non hamsters stuff, I'm just curious :-)