Weeeeeeasels!

[hearthstone]

I am told that the weasel on the back porch is a short-tailed weasel, also known as a stoat. Apparently they will kill, kill, kill mice as long as there are mice to kill. They'll store them for later. And, when they run out of space, keep killing. Kind of the Terminator of rodentia.

They are cute as hell, though :).

Comments

[thyias.livejournal.com]

hahahaha ~ easy solution to a problem I guess!

[awake-and-aware.livejournal.com]

That's what I was thinkin! Cute and kills! What can get better!

[hearthstone.livejournal.com]

Yes! Here is a web page which includes a pic:

http://www.hylebos.org/statepark/Weasel.htm

Only ours is currently all white (except the tip of its tail) so even cuter!

[awake-and-aware.livejournal.com]

Oh what a cute little bugger!!!

[hearthstone.livejournal.com]

Well, it gets the porch mice, and I suppose any mice planning to get to the house via the porch, but we still have plenty in the house. Dan's traps caught six yesterday. We have both the tiny grey mice and the larger brown mice. They are, in fact, cute as well--but they also crap on the kitchen counter which negates a lot of the cute.

[thyias.livejournal.com]

He`s so cuuuuuuute! But damn that is a lot of mice for just one afternoon worth of trapping. **L**

[hearthstone.livejournal.com]

Yes. Unfortunately it is far from a record :P.

[emacsen.livejournal.com]

How much will you like weasel shit on your kitchen floor?

[hearthstone.livejournal.com]

That or little mouse bones and skin? Not much, if it could get in there, which I figure either it can't or it doesn't want to (the mice being smaller and more interested) :). It did have a potential route to the basement but Dan blocked it off.

[weya.livejournal.com]

Now I have a mental imagine of a little animal with a Schwarzenegger accent. *giggle*

[hearthstone.livejournal.com]

LOL! Perhaps it will run for weasel governor... :)