I really struggle to get my head round weasels

[HoneyDragon]

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.

Oh god
You too?
Causin' a commotion
'Coz they are so awesome

I had no idea weasels were that small.

I'm with you on the giraffe thing though.

And beavers... How do they build a dam? I have seen them patching up one that already exists, but how do they start it off, without their materials just floating away??

Gobblers, dh is driven mad by the rest of the household singing it . I also like

flyiiiiin Sqiiiirells, bombing through sky looking superfly.....

Their kick ass facial horn, BeerTricks

I was really enjoying this thread till I clicked on the mole link [quiver]

I always thought weasels and stoats were a lot bigger, sort of the size of a pine marten.
My cat caught a stoat once and it was teensy.
I used to feed a pine marten with jam sandwiches, it used to come right up to the window ledge.

I think we are ALL traumatised by the alien mole.

My kids do a great line in whenever we are out and about.

We have a local national trust house that has a narwhal horn in the hall. Everytime we're there DS likes to loudly inform me and the rest of the room that "in olden days" people believed they were unicorn horns but really they are the horn of a whale called a narwhal. That kid is going to be the king of loud parenting when he's all grown up...

So how did they go from bloody big fish thing with facial horn to imaginary horse with horn?

Did someone lop it off a narwhal and stick it on a donkey or what?

I get confused between voles and shrews. Are they the same thing? What is different about them? My dog catches them (one of them don't know which) and chews them like they were tasty gum.

Gobblers, prairie dogs rock! They are as good as meerkats for the looking and barking

Am sure have seen fuck weasel on MN (obviously about someone with a penis LRD, perhaps not the Farthing Wood author mind you).

Have never seen any of these creatures in RL, dead or alive. Only rats, scratty foxes and grey town mice. Does that mean we are not living the country dream?

Shrews have pointing noses

Pointy.

I don't understand how people believed it either. The horns are massive taller than me (yes I know not hard) but still, would need a fucking big horse to keep it up.

We hired a cottage in the Cotswolds once, and there was a weasel in the garden. It used to flash past the window at the speed of weasel sound about four times a day. He was weeny. Weasel physics= Tiny, speedy and MEAN.

Dinosaur bones? Maybe they thought they were giant horses.

I think rhinos were what fed the unicorn craze, rather than narwhales...

I saw a weasel killing a rabbit while camping once (I was camping, not the weasel). The rabbit screamed.

Apparently it's a very rare thing to see and we were very lucky I don't think the rabbit felt lucky

I have a giant rabbit. He'd kick weasel ass.

I think this thread has enough evidence to prove that weasels are in the wrong. Maybe we should petition parliament?

Once they have been chewed up I am not sure the feet are identifiable tbh.