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I really struggle to get my head round weasels

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HoneyDragon · 06/06/2013 18:46

I've seen them. I know what they look like, and often catch them whizzing across the road at weasel warp speed.

But their size always surprises me. Every time. I know they are small. But when you look at a picture of a weasel or think weasel, you think bigger. You don't think "oh, a weasel. That's a little bigger than a hamster that is". Or I don't. I go, ooooh a weasel. Wow, it's tiny, every time, the surprise never abates.

I struggle with weasel physics. That the actual weasel is not the size of the concept of weasel in my head.

I'm not sure how to fix it. Confused

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FlyLikeABird · 06/06/2013 19:43

Nasty little fuckers. One got in my guinea pig's cage and attacked her. We chased it off but it came back while we were trying to sort out an emergency vet (to put poor GP to sleep) and it ripped her ears off Sad

Nature's tough I guess.

BeerTricksPotter · 06/06/2013 19:45

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BrianCat · 06/06/2013 19:45

Beavers are much bigger than you think. I saw one years ago at a zoo and still haven't come to terms with it.

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HoneyDragon · 06/06/2013 19:46

Their dams are massive.

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Tinkerisdead · 06/06/2013 19:46

Ohhhhh thankyou!

7 years ago i was driving home down a country lane and a little animal ran really fast across the road. I asked everyone what the hell it could be as it was "like a squirrel running on all fours but without the bushy tail and smaller".

Everyone said i was mental because everyone said stoats/weasels are all ferret sized. After 7 years you have revealed it was a weasel i saw.

I can die happy now!

BeerTricksPotter · 06/06/2013 19:47

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Hassled · 06/06/2013 19:47

Wait - now you're telling me Tasmanian Devils are a thing? Not just a cartoon?

AuntieBrenda · 06/06/2013 19:48

This is my favourite OP ever. Ever ever ever.

MrsHoarder · 06/06/2013 19:50

Weasels are too small.
But badgers definitely exist, we used to live near a set of them. But then we moved to the countryside and now we don't see wildlife.

SoniaGluck · 06/06/2013 19:51

Gobblers I know I should get over my aversion. It was the kitten dumpling that frightened me.

My daughter had 2 rats (Kenny and Duncan) and I couldn't bring myself to touch them . I did cry when they died - within a week of each other - as I am very soppy.

MrsWolowitz · 06/06/2013 19:53

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GrandPoohBah · 06/06/2013 19:58

Rats are cute and make the best pets. When one of my pair died, the other buried her, it was very sweet.

I did not know weasels were that small. I also hadn't realised badgers were quite as big as they are until I moved to suburbia near a wood and saw them IRL.

I want a ferret,

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GrandPoohBah · 06/06/2013 19:59

Oh, and yes - Tasmanian Devils are the ones dying of face-cancer.

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GobblersKnob · 06/06/2013 20:00

Star nosed moles were not made on earth, the clue's in the name, clearly alien beings.

Beavers are indeed fucking massive.

HoneyDragon · 06/06/2013 20:00

Why has someone exploded that moles nose? Why?

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TapselteerieO · 06/06/2013 20:01

I just want to boast I have seen a pine Martin in the wild, but I've not seen a giraffe in the wild. I was cycling home one day and a weasel ran along the dry stane dyke beside me, and a stoat killed our guinea pigs - so I don't mind weasels and dislike stoats.

I have also seen an adder sun bathing. My favourite recent wild critter sighting was seeing a bee beetle which is like a ladybird that is dressed up as a bee.

Dh(who is Irish) calls weasels stoats or stoats weasels - I know weasels are weasily recognised and stoats are stoatally different - but I just can't remember if they have one or neither in Ireland.

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TapselteerieO · 06/06/2013 20:03

MrsWolo surely they are worse? Moles with wriggly caterpillars on their noses yuck, seem pretty alien to me!

GobblersKnob · 06/06/2013 20:04

This thread has made me realise how much I have missed mumsnet Smile, pissing degree.

HoneyDragon · 06/06/2013 20:05

I remember being thrilled to discover Narwhals were real Blush

This is a favourite off the dragon household

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