"Sue Kocher" <[log in to unmask]> writes >My sister reports having seen a totally black or dark brown ferret in >Michigan (obviously unneutered, as it stank badly, she said). I have never >seen or heard on the FML about ferrets of a solid color other than >white--what about y'all? Was my sister hallucinating again? Could it >have been a mink--can they be kept as pets? Minks look just like ferrets, only brown all over, apart from a light patch on the cheek/throat/lower lip. (Never upper lip, then it's a polecat.) >BTW I was wondering...since horses and donkeys can interbreed, albeit >producing sterile mules, is it possible for, say, a ferret and a mink or >stoat to be bred? Minks and ferrets have been bred, but as they have different number of chromosomes, the result is sterile mules. -- Urban Fredriksson [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 1216]