Kaytee Fiesta Max Treats for Ferrets, 2-1/2-Pound

Several years ago, Kaytee Fiesta Ferret Food contained dried fruit. Dried fruit ferrets are incapable of digesting, which offered no nutritional value and posed choking and intestinal hazards.

With the redesigned Kaytee Fiesta Gourmet Ferret Food, they've at least banished the fruit to the garbage bin where it belongs--but this still ain't good food. Ferrets are obligate carnivores. An ideal ferret diet has as much meat and as little grain as possible, which is achieved by one high-end ferret food (entirely meat-based kibble) and admirably approached by several other premium ferret foods (meat-heavy blends with a minimal amount of corn).

Kaytee's offering falls into neither of these categories, being absolutely lousy with cheap fillers. Most foods use corn as a filler. If you read the ingredients list on the Kaytee, on the other hand, seemingly every other ingredient is a filler: Ground corn, rice, dried beet pulp, soy flour, corn gluten meal, oat meal, wheat...Read more

I have owned two ferrets for 5 years now, only feeding them Zupreem, 8 in 1, and one other random food. I have always ensured that they only receive the best care and food and they have been very healthy. During one food refill, I picked up a 2.5lb bag of Kaytee, figuring that it looked tasty and any nutrition deficiencies in the food would have a minimal effect since it was mixed with over 10lbs of other food. Unfortunately, shortly after switching foods, both of my ferrets have been showing significant health problems. The vet was completely stumped and only after looking into the ingredients in the Kaytee food have we concluded that this is the cause of our woes. Please, for the health of your ferret, please stay away from Kaytee at all costs.