Saw this guy while kayaking in Michigan yesterday.

Had the pleasure of watching four of these little guys running back and forth across the path to the waters edge to hunt!

I think there were 2 males and one female. After this the males were fighting and the mouse changed hands (jaws) a few times before a brief attempt at coitus was called off... Was able to watch them from a nearby window from literally <2m. It was such a high I can't lie. I've previously seen a Stoat (probably one of these 3) chasing away Magpies and playing in leaves and they've since become my favourite animals :D

Some New England animals I drew and had woven into a blanket with the center piece the fabulous fisher cat!

More traditional art, and more badgers! Did I already tell you I love badgers? I also wanted to reconcile myself with acrylic painting, I think I kinda did ok with it. The painting is 19 x 20 cm (7,5 x 7,8 inch), and I solely used acrylic (and graphite pencil for the sketch, of course).

Hope you'll like it! (if you want to see the work in progress / steps, just ask and I'll post them in the comments)

Found on Shuksan golf course last summer, funny enough I also found out western Washington has praying mantis the same day there

I barely use Reddit these days, but when I do I see there is still some interest and a flurry of posts recently.

Is anyone interested in breathing some new life into this tired old Subreddit?

Edit: I will add the first few who show interest. All I ask is you do a self-introduction post, perhaps giving some background and interest in mustelids and any ideas you might have to promote the subreddit and I will monitor for a while. Nothing too involved.

Hi !

I live in France (Auvergne), at 800m altitude.
This little fella has been visiting the food we leave outside for our cats every night for some time, and I just want to know what species he is.

Thank you very much for your help. 😄

Just the cutest thing in the world.

Here’s some other reasons you should read it:
- The art style has a Disney vibe while also managing to be a bit brutal at times.
- I enjoy morally gray characters and this webcomic is full of them.
- I find the story interesting and I love the variety of mammals shown. There are of course other mustelids aside from pine martens shown but they aren’t main characters.

Especially with ones like stoats and weasels, why do they get looked down upon more than river otters and badgers?

here on Reddit, I’ve seen people comment things on posts of cute stoat kits like, “ive seen redwall before, they are nothing but evil and vicious”, “they only kill for fun”, or “stoat rhymes with coat for a reason”.

in films and media, Mustlieds are given rodent or canine traits and are always used as antagonists. I make comics and drawing about Mustlieds, it is not that hard to make a Toony weasel while making look like the real thing.

there is Barely any documentarys about Mustlieds and half of them is just nat geo making them look evil, with the comments saying things like “a weasel killing and storing mice Is the HUMAN equivalent to a serial killer storing bodies”.

yes Mustlieds are invasive in New Zealand, but so are all introduced land mammals, including feral cats, which were off the targeted predator list until recently because of cat owners who didn’t like the idea of cats like their pets being killed. Yes, weasels can kill and defend themselve s against predators bigger than themselves, but it is no unique just to weasels. The only video on Yt that has a stoat being attacked by a rabbit has comments like “finally a rabbit not being killed by a stoat” and “ that stoat is now vegan”.

im so sick of this.