>From:    Jim Byrnes <[log in to unmask]>
>One word to all, that there is currently a health inspector in Ontario,
>Canada researching the reasons and results for quarantine of a ferret and
>the destruction of, to look for rabies.
 
This would have been very helpful to the Maryland folk working on this
issue.  I'll try to make sure that those involved get this info.  One active
person is on this list so I'll probably be re-informing them.  Thanks.
 
>From:    Charlene M Lowe <[log in to unmask]>
>Henry is growing a black mohawk down the center of his head.  I thought
>this was a blaze but then saw that they are white.  What is a big black
>stripe down the head called?  He is what is called a siamese I think.  A
>light chocolate brown, whitish under-fur, brown legs and feet and brown
>mask on his white face.
 
You're going to be disappointed.  You call that dark stripe down the head...
a dark stripe down the head.  This isn't a named pattern.  In the AFA color
standard (and the others I'm also familiar with) this is just a feature not
part of any pattern.  Most of the named patterns are color distribution or
white markings.
 
Black isn't normally expected to be a color on a chocolate colored ferret
but I've seen it many times - though not usually such a stripe.
 
bill and diane killian
zen and the art of ferrets
[Posted in FML issue 1496]