I was wondering... how would you rate your deaf ferrets intelligence on a scale of 1-5? Intelligence may not be the best word to use here, but I had to pick something. One being very "slow", to five being brilliant. Three would be average. You get the idea. I'm looking at lots of things to judge their intelligence such as quickness in learning tricks, quickness in learning litter training, problem solving, alertness, level of exploration activity, etc.. I'm asking because theoretically........... Waardenburg syndrome in some species leaves them quite ordinary (very average iq) or even slow. I forget where I read that in researching WS, but I found it in at least two sources that I remember. I'll start: Jubilee (rip) 3 Ping: 2 Pong: 5 All my other ferrets that are hearing are a three except for one that may be a 4, and one that is a definate 1 (poor thing lol). I'm not doing a survey or an anectdotal type of study. I was just curious and throwing it up for discussion. Wolfy Please visit: http://www.geocities.com/wolfysluv/ for information on ferret deafness: http://www.geocities.com/wolfysluv/deaf.html [Posted in FML issue 3792]