Quote Originally Posted by wolfy-hound View Post
I've never heard of anyone advocating feeding live mice(or mice of any kind) to a ferret. Why would you even WANT to do that? You say you can't bring yourself to 'be that violant' but you routinely pit a small mouse against your pet ferret?
As far as the rat, either keep it temporaily until you find someone to take it, or euthanize it. If you are going to feed live, then you should be prepared to hold a rodent a few days.
Letting it go is a MAJOR reason why people have greivances against pet owners already. There's no reason to turn a rodent loose. It will be a slow death of exposure, starvation, or predetor, or car. If it did survive, you just introduced another non-native creature. If you are tired of your snake, will you turn it loose too?
Rats are easy to keep in a bin that costs a couple dollars with a little effort.
Ferrets are highly capable of killing rodents, that's what their made to do, their carnivores... They eat meat and can't digest most processed ferret foods on the market. There are to many additives, and undigestible vegetables and fruit (can't digest the sugars and fibers). Some Ferret diets are good but i stick with the raw diet. Just thought i would throw my .2 in on that one