"Ferrets are the new black"?

[muninnhuginn]

According to The Grauniad Ferrets weasel into our affections.

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[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

I *like* ferrets .. but "the new black"????

1) does that mean everyone will trade them in, when something else is trendy?

2) most ferrets are lovely shades of brown.

[muninnhuginn]

1. Sadly, yes, I guess so. At least in the wild thay can help keep the rats down (see previous comments on rats (not that we object to rats per se)).

2. Yup. Very pretty. We prefer their wild cousins, however. For a while one winter, a suitably winter-clad stoat took up residence in a pile of (white) concrete rubble in my parents' back garden. In sight of the house, allowing much observation in comfort.

The original cat we had claimed to have caught a stoat once. "Mroaw: look what I've brought you." Sadly, the specimen was a little dog-eared and stiff as a board. But she must've worked quite hard carrying it home: it wasn't small.

All of the stoaty creatures are good. Makes reading "The Wind in the Willows" hard if you're a weasel friend though!

Brown, by extension, is the new black!

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Excellent rodent hunters, yes - and I agree, they've gotten a bad rap in literature, for the most part.

Cheeky cat, trying to pass off a petrified corpse as a fresh kill!

My little terrier actually managed to nab a mouse last winter. The pride almost killed him. ;-)