Although she appears to be deaf, Angel has an uncanny ability to know when I get home or get out of bed in the morning. Is it possible she feels vibrations from me walking on the floor? Or maybe she just notices that the other ferrets are up and about and decides to join them. She does not have a blaze and her face is not completely white. However, compared to the rest of her body, her face is whiter than the rest of her. So perhaps there is some sort of genetic predisposition here, even though, as other FMLers have noted, it's not 100 percent indicative of deafness. Linda, owned by Espie (who loves the idea of a Ferretone fountain in the living room and thinks this should definitely be at the top of the ferret union agenda), Frankie, Lucky Charminator (the original hard hat-wearing ferret, who thinks the union should design and sell a miniature hard hat as a fund-raiser), and Angel [Posted in FML issue 1147]