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Gwenoakes
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Stoat or Weasel

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Just looked out my kitchen window and saw one or other of the above and at the same time a thumping great big rat!
Even if I was techno enough it was too quick to get a picture. I have looked online and still undecided if it was Stoat or Weasel.
At our other house one of our cats got one and killed it.
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Well how big was it compared to the rat?
Stoats are quite big though not as big as a cat. Weasels are little.
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Weasels are weasily recognised and stoats are stoatily different :P
Weasels are diddy, stoats are larger with a black tip to the tail.
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Stoats are bigger and haver that tell tale black tip to their tails.
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It was bigger than the rat, Mo. Not so rotund as the rat either.
LOL, HH.
Don't think it had a black tip to its tail, but it was moving very fast, SS.
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This time of year ferrets can go wandering. Some escape and go looking for love :)

But they aren't the same colour as stoats and weasels so look totally different.
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Gwenoakes wrote:It was bigger than the rat,

Not a weasel then
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