From: Signe Peerson <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Need a Picture... >I've read about blue-eyed ferrets, but can't remember where. Does anyone >have a blue-eyed light colored ferret, or know where I can find a picture >of one on the Internet? Most "ruby eyed" ferrets have blue eyes. The blue is the color of the iris but like with the full albino you see the color of the inside through the whole iris not just the pupil. The light blue adds a maroonish cast to the albino red. Sables with blue eyes have a denser pigmentation and appear much bluer than light colored (with are usually dilutes or partial albino) ferrets. I've never seen a picture that shows the blueness. Your cinnamon boy in the story would likely have "blue" eyes that appear ruby. So far I haven't seen angoras that weren't sable, chocolate, champane or albino. But its just a matter of time for the other colors (probably). >From: Mia and Patrick Emery <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: Long haired ferrets >but we had a little Swedish Long Haired jill (also called an Angora I >think) come to us. An angora is more than a long haired ferret. Most of our Swedish ferrets have longer hair than our other ferrets. The mutation that affects the undercoat is the difference more than the length of the hair from what we can see in the ferrets. >Sure enough, the G-d damned Swedes had removed her uterus and left her >ovaries. I know this wasn't written by you Mia... And its a different Tommy than you author below... Be very careful about painting the entire population of Sweden with the same brush. When Tommy was the breeder in Sweden exporting ferrets to Lars who imported them into the US the ferrets were properly spayed. Other more recent Swedish ranches that have sent ferrets over might not have been as careful. This probably affects only one breeder's exports. bill and diane killian zen and the art of ferrets http://www.zenferret.com/ mailto:[log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 2471]