Hey.

To the best of my knowledge ferets are known as TERRIFIC pets precisely because they remain tame and don't revert. So weasels grow out of their attachment and revert (which makes them unsuitable pets) but ferets (and polecats - I think that was the suggestion) do not (which is what makes ferets anyway quite suitable pets). Don't know if people keep polecats as pets... That was the way I read that anyhow.

It is weird... I didn't know about ferets until I read your query and thought I'd do a little research... I was thinking they would be more like rats than like cats (so eating grains rather than meat). I was a little suspicious, though, of why someone would give away a $600 pet with a months worth of food and special litter unless food and special litter were necessary and fairly expensive... They seem to have quite high exercise requirements, too...

It sounded like that would be right about the chicken. I guess the only thing I'd worry about would be the ratio's of different things. So while a whole chicken might be good, only skin and organs might contain too much of x and too little of y for that to be a good thing. Like how a little bit of fat is essential but too much is bad. I'm not sure.... I guess I'd check out the online websites about feret care a little more... If you find the same thing said on a few different sites and those sites seem to be fairly well informed and professional... Then that thing is fairly likely to be true (to the best of our knowledge).