Okay, I had to respond to this one! My silver mitt, Roxy, feels like a brillo pad. Summer, winter, fall, spring, she feels like a brillo pad, albiet slightly less in the winter. None of the rest of the ferrets have this lovely brillo texture, so I don't think it's a food or vitamin issue. I think she's just taking steel gray to an extreme! She is ALSO my kamikaze ferret. If she wants out of the ferret-sanctioned areas, she climbs on the highest thing anywhere NEAR the exit and flings her 1.3 lb self over it. I swear, she's got wings tucked up in there somewhere! I'm really thinking that there's something to this silver mitt theory!! Laura & Roxy \-._.-/ Laura Hess {=^o^=} Kent State University (( (~) )) English Major ~\`:'/~ Economics Major `-^-' Animal Lover [Posted in FML issue 3134]