I've always had a mental picture of a panda being basically
black/silver/whathaveyou and white, but can pandas come in the full gamut
of ferret coat colors?  It occurs to me that perhaps Seti is technically
a panda, since his entire head is white.  From the neck down his coat
shifts into a very pretty (not that I'm biased) light gold, with pale
milk chocolate guard hairs on his rump, flanks, legs and tail.  I realize
that a picture would be worth a thousand words, but the best I have at
the moment shows him in his baby coat at three months, here:
 
http://www.channel1.com/users/regina/ferretsnew.html
 
He looks like he has a slight mask in these pictures but really, he
doesn't.  His eyes are ruby, ruby red.  His hearing seems fine as far as
I can tell and he's a pretty robust weasel, weighing in at about 4 pounds
now at 11 months.  But it would be good to know whether I should be a
little extra vigilant about his health down the road (although the way
I'm capable of being a hypochondriac over my weasels' health, that's kind
of like saying whether I should continue to drink water or not, or
continue to breathe air or not).
 
Regina
 
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Is that my business?  Well, what is my business?  Do I know?  Did I ever
know?  Let s not go into that.  You re not human tonight, Marlowe.  Maybe
I never was or ever will be... Maybe we all get like this in the cold
half-lit world where always the wrong thing happens and never the right.
--Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister
[Posted in FML issue 4064]