>Fiona is deaf and she talks like a normal ferret would. She actually >dooks and she does it at the right time. > >Can deaf ferrets speak correctly and use it in the right context. Oh wow, this is suuuuuch a neat topic. I love this. How do your other hearing ferrets react to her? Have you noticed anything? Do they seem to have the same body language? Do they seem to initiate contact equally, or is she a bit aloof at times? I've had very chatty deaf ferrets before, but they sound like they could be speaking Russian for all I know. It just doesn't quite "sound" the same. And you can see fairly clearly, that the hearing ferrets tend to ignore some of the chatters, hisses, laughing, etc. I'm supposing, that maybe some of the sounds ... are actually "spoken" correctly for the most part. I guess due to instinct being so strong that it takes over. But I think the context is many times wrong. Wolfy http://wolfysluv.jacksnet.com [Posted in FML issue 4822]