RE: Andrea M. Garza and Buffy's questions... Our experience is that the softness of fur changes seasonally. Not big changes but noticeable. We have a white female that is particularly prone to developing a very soft think coat just after molting. When not following a molt their coats are generally smooth guard hairs with soft underhair. We have also noticed that all of them have had a much better condition coat for the last three years. Fuller, softer and less dry and brittle. Two changes may be significant here: 1. We switched them to a ferret specific food about three years ago. (Totally Ferret from Iams kitten food.) 2. We stopped frequent bathing. Now they get one about every 12 months. (May actually just stop bathing them altogether as they don't seem to need it!) [Posted in FML issue 1866]