Hello All: Last week I posted about how ferret math had hit Wyrdhaven once again with the addition of a 4-week old baby. This is the update. The baby is now rougly 6 weeks old and is doing very well, though we discovered very early that she's deaf as a stone. We'd heard this was not uncommon amongst white-headed ferrets. Otherwise her coloring is really beginning to come in, with black & white kneecaps and two dark stripes of black running up her neck over her ears. Her head is still downy white. The other ferrets all have mixed feelings. Taz, the crazy one, wants to attack her but was doing much better last night as we rewarded good behavior with Puffins. Minx and Puck (who look like they could be her parents) aren't 100% sure but tentatively want to take care of her. Rosie, Scamp, and Ranger don't care, while Newone is too old to bother with such things--she gave baby a once-over sniff and has ignored her ever since. And her name, we've decided, is "Mica". Steven and Colleen Continually Matching Wits with Newone, Minx, Puck, Taz, Scamp, Ranger, Rosie, and Mica Waiting on the Other Side: Missy, Ripple, Slinky, and Zebulon Pike +==========================================================================+ | _ | | Steven Woodcock _____C .._. | | Senior Software Engineer, Gameware & AI ____/ \___/ | | Lockheed Martin Real3D & Wyrd Wyrks <____/\_---\_\ "Ferretman" | | Phone: 719-597-5413 (Real3D), 719-392-2975 (Wyrd Wyrks) | | E-mail: [log in to unmask] (Real3D), [log in to unmask] (Wyrd Wyrks)| | Web: http://www.concentric.net/~swoodcoc/ai.html (Game AI) | | My opinions are NO reflection of the opinions of Real3D--get *serious* | +==========================================================================+ [Posted in FML issue 1942]