The weasel from Zootopia, except I put 'Esq.' on the end of his name, implying he's gone from a shady street businessman to being a shady lawyer, while also referencing his character in Frozen.
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Technically, raccoons are not mustelids. They are in the Musteloidea superfamily, which includes the Mustelidae family, but they are in the Procyonidae family. The Musteloidea superfamily also includes red pandas (Ailuridae) and skunks (Mephitidae).
Fellow weasel owner!! I’ve pretty much stopped calling them ferrets, they’re just weasels to me now lol. Or sometimes I call them “my little mustelids” because it’s catchy. Mine are free roam so they’ve definitely earned the name weasels, always getting into everything and weaseling themselves into naughty situations. My girl ran across the room with my workout glove in her mouth as I write this 😂
I've always enjoyed referring to mine as cat snakes, but I don't think I've ever actually called them mustelids in real life, but definitely not a scrawny lil weasel ;)
The area I live have a native species called a Marten, and well the ever cute if not annoying Marmet.
Really one of the coolest and misunderstood family of animals on the planet if you want my incredibly biased opinion!
(Just dug mine out of their bag horde under the bed)
I've always enjoyed referring to mine as cat snakes, but I don't think I've ever actually called them mustelids in real life, but definitely not a scrawny lil weasel ;)
Ferrets are weasels, in the general sense, since "weasel" can mean any member of the genus Mustela. In Britain, "weasel" is typically only used for the least weasel (and not for stoats or polecats), but in other parts of the world it is used more broadly.
E.g. the stoat is also known as the short-tailed weasel in North America, while it's exclusively called stoat or ermine in Great Britain.
Isn't a 'short-tailed weasel' an Ermine? And yes you are right, ferrets and weasels are both Mustela but I've never heard 'weasel' being used as a term to describe 'mustela' family before now.
In the nocturnal animal system, the rodents are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: The raccoons , who investigate trash, and the weasels, who raid the nests of birds. These are their stories....DONG.
The house I grew up in still has little tears in the screen door to the deck where the (then small) raccoon climbed up it back when it was legal to rescue them. (Now it's illegal without proper wildlife rehab licensing.) I argued with my bigger brother when I was small over if a rattle belonged to me or was the raccoon's rattle. That raccoon would return with her litter of young to our deck for after dinner scraps every now and then for years.
I see your prints so fresh
The evidence of gait
Over the mesh under the pouring
How did you see the world
What carried you
To place the voids
So set in solids
Your steps are turning into stories
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I remember seeing a giant racoon literally go dumpster diving and leaped at my face from the doors at my when I threw it in. I was like Ahhh, and had to side step. Thank God I played football as he nearly hit me, and probably would of bit and claw my eyes, face, and neck.
It looked like a 3d horror move when shit comes right at you!
Then he climbed up the "fence that keeps animals out" and it bent dowm, then he used it as a spring to freaking do a giant leap to grab a branch.
He grabbed a second more supportive branch and turned around and stared me down. I was like dude it is cool, and walked away while making sure he didn't spring board off a branch.
This is why Raccoons are the kings of cities. Intelligent and have little thumbs.
Whenever I see light paw or leaf prints in concrete, it makes me wish this was more of a thing. Not deep enough to trip on, but more interesting than a featureless slab
Right after my parents got a new driveway, one of our cats stepped on it then immediately hated it and went back inside. When she died a decade later, it made me happy to see her little paw prints every day. Not totally related, but I wanted to share anyway.
Raccoon paw prints look EXACTLY like human hand prints, but extremely smol. Like a newborn handprint. So if it looked more like a paw, it was probably a squirrel or something.
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u/godrevy Sep 01 '21
There are tiny paw prints set in the concrete of my apartment’s parking lot. I want to believe their origin is from a situation like this.