Pat Ball asked: > Waardenburg's Syndrome. [...] What is it, is it serious, and if so, > how serious, etc. In humans, roughly speaking, it's a genetic "flaw" whose characteristic signs are a white lock on the forehead, wide-spaced eyes, and deafness. Ferrets with a white stripe and wide-spaced eyes are often, though not always, deaf; the obvious guess is that it's caused by a similar genetic condition. (It's been seen in other species -- e.g., cats -- too.) Pat Marquardt wrote about Doofus the ferret, the 1994 Homecoming King of Rice University. There's a copy of that picture on the Ferret Photo Gallery WWW page. (Rice is my alma mater.) Doofus is much cuter than some of the other Homecoming royalty Rice has elected -- one year the Queen was a refrigerator. Laura L'Heureux asked about a bumper sticker: > I have this picture in my mind of a ferret behind prison bars with > the words something like 'Free California Ferrets'. Last I saw, they were available from CDFA and Ferretware, 1-800-FERRETW. -- - Pam Greene Ferret Central<http://www.optics.rochester.edu:8080/users/pgreene/central.html> No WWW? Use anon FTP to ftp.optics.rochester.edu and look in pgreene/ or send INDEX FERRET in email to <[log in to unmask]> [Posted in FML issue 1282]