Can ferrets eat cheese?!
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they will but why feed them a chunk of fat
Milk and dairy products contain lactose, a specific type of sugar that requires the enzyme lactase to break it down. In most animal species, only the babies produce lactase... as they get older, they stop making this enzyme. Lactose tolerant humans possess a mutation that keeps them producing this enzyme for their whole lives... they only possess this as result of 10,000+ years of their ancestors drinking milk. For this reason, lactose tolerant humans are the exception among the animal kingdom, nearly every other species is lactose intolerant as an adult. If you feed cheese to your ferret the result would be like a lactose intolerant person eating cheese.
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NO! stick to ferret food and ferret treats. Ferrets don't break down human food like we do and it can make them very sick, or it can cause an impacted bowel.
If lactose intolerance is the only concern, what about lactose free cheese? Just saying.
In short: No.
Ferrets do not have lactase in their gut, meaning they cannot break down the lactose in milk.
ferrets cant have cheese or veggies and fruit only meat.
