Hi Paula, not all ferrets have nice smooth coats, some naturally have very coarse coats, I used to call then terrier ferrets. I have not seen any for a while because only people who worked their ferrets were happy with that type of coat. I had a cold wet half dead little male brought to me one night and after drying him off I thought the best place for him was in with 2 breeder jills I had caged together ready to be mated. In the morning I expected to find him dead but I found him alive, very active and he had already mated with the 2 jills. I was not over pleased with the 18 coarse coated kits my 2 prise winning silky coated polecat jills produced that year. Chris. Christopher S Lloyd. Wessex Ferret Club http://web.ukonline.co.uk/superzoe/ Woolston D & F Club www.btinternet.com/~chris.lloyd2/ [Posted in FML issue 3669]