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 Regina Harrison [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] http://www.channel1.com/users/regina/ blog: http://www.channel1.com/users/regina/zblog.html 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]