Yesterday someone wrote about othere animals having phsycal attributes more common to those who were born in or have heritage from the orient. A group of cats and dogs were cited in that catagory. At present there are no ferrets that have phsycal attributes of humans from any part of the planet. Ferrets are the same world over being a small number in their breed as compared to numbers in breeds of other animals. Yet if a group of ferrets became somewhat isolated from normal cross breeding there would be some specific other than usual attributes to be uniquely common to those. As to the dogs with webbed feet used for duck hunting, my neighbor had one of those dogs. It used to be nice to sit on the outdoors porch and listen to the dog croaking and 'ribbiting' in the evening. But is was kind of disgusting when his tongue would dart out to catch a bug on your arm. Slobber you know.. yuck ! [Posted in FML issue 4673]