Their is little or no difference between an angora ferret and a smooth coated ferret. The only thing a friend of mine here in the UK found was that she had to keep hers in a room on the west side of her house were they did not get the midday sun streaming through the windows, instead of in the south facing stables along with the rest of her ferrets. Nothing in life is normal, it is just more usual. [Posted in FML issue 4329]