To Laura L'Heureaux:
 
>But Tribble, well, she just has this really blank ruby-eyed stare.  I
>just can't figure out if it's some sort of a neurological deficit, or
>a vision deficit, or both.  Anybody, including drs., have a clue?
 
Laura - you know as well as I do that color-diluted animals have more genetic
abnormalitis that stock strains.  But my blind ferrets generally run into the
walls occasionally, or run around behing the other ferrets to sniff to tell who
they are, etc.
 
        I do have Bob, though.  Bob is a little on the slow side, and trusts
everyone.  He doesn't seem to have the menace reflex either, because he can
imagine anyone slapping his face.  So he won't flinch when you move quickly
toward his face.  He lives to eat, and sleep, and little else.  He's great with
people, and all of the other ferrets fight over who gets to curl up with him.
 He's lovable but dumb as a post.  Perhaps this is Tribble's problem??? (No
disrepect intended...
 
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[Posted in FML issue 1182]