Well, I haven't posted in awhile, so some of you won't remember me, and some have never met me. Between my wedding coming in August, work, 11 adult ferrets, and my first litter of babies, I haven't had time. Wedding plans are coming along fine, and I finally found someone to make a ferret wedding cake topper for me. One of the members of our club, HOFA is an art student who does alot of sculpting, and she made a sketch for me in about 2 minutes. It will be two ferrets facing each other in the shape of a heart. She's quite a talented young artist and loves ferrets, so alot of her artwork features them. Some of you might have seen her at a few shows, she sells the vinyl graphics of ferret silhouettes for car windows, and etched glass with ferrets on them. My silver mitt, Angel, gave birth to 7 healthy little pink slugs with amazingly good lungs to make lots of noise. They are now just over 5 weeks old, and happily eating kibble and mush and playing in slow motion. Dad, Zorro, who belongs to good friends of mine, Ross and Tricia Pettito, is also a silver mitt. I was hoping for at least a couple of silver mitts, since it's my favorite pattern. It appears that I got my wish, since ALL SEVEN are silver mitts! A couple of them show hints of some possible patterning, like a blaze or two, hard to say for sure yet, but one little girl has the most unusual pattern I've ever seen, and I'm wanting to find out if anyone else has ever seen this. On her left cheek, she has just the light little smudge under her eye, like most silver mitts. On her right cheek, she has this large, very dark spot, making it appear that she is like those dogs with one eye ringed. It's actually very cute, and she has a dark black nose. I've never seen this pattern before, and neither has anyone I've asked about it, so I thought I'd put that out there. If you could email me personally, I'd appreciate it, since I barely have time to breathe of late. Thanks, and I hope everyone and their fuzzies are doing great, and hope that those who aren't are getting some comfort at least. Sherry and her Merry Mob (11 adults, 7 kits from my jill, and another jill and her 7 kits I'm baby sitting!) -whew- [Posted in FML issue 3042]