>From: Inez Gowsell <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Introduction and question >She is a sable, i think. She has a very light back and dark feet. My >other ferret - that died several years ago - had a dark mask. Belphebe >doesn't. Is she a sable or something else? Sable is a color. Ferrets have both pattern and color. The pattern you describe is color-point or Siamese. So she is a Sable Point or Sable Siamese. Sable is very dark brown often approaching black. Chocolate is the color of milk chocolate (no surprise). Champagne is lighter brown to beige (also called cinnamon). Standard pattern is dark legs with medium body. Solid pattern is dark legs and body. I'm not a vet but the approach the vet is recommending sounds reasonable to me. Don't wait too long on the shot. Adrenal tumors are cause of swollen vulvas but I've not heard about many in ferrets that young. Botched spays do happen usually from smaller ranches or bad vets. I'd have to defer to your vets advice. >From: Judith Sanders <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Adoptable Ferrets: Gettysburg >Fran's Ferret Rescue, located on Greenmount Road, Gettysburg, PA, currently >has about ten ferrets available for adoption. I'd like to highly recommend Fran Wiles. She is about the most dedicated ferret shelter director I know. bill and diane killian zen and the art of ferrets http://userwww.qnet.com/~killian/zen_home.htm [Posted in FML issue 1558]