animal id please
"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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Janet wrote:
In article , kay.d35e955
says...
I saw a small animal scurrying around in the undergrowth near a suburban
retail park towards dusk - light silvery grey, size and shape of a very
well fed grey squirrel. But wrong behaviour for a squirrel - and when it
came out on to the grass, I saw it had a long thin tail. Unless anyone
has a better idea, it is probably a rat - but it was too light a colour
for a rat, and the head was too large and too rounded.
polecat? A neighbour used to keep them for rabbiting; his were greyish
and the size was midway between a stoat and a ferret.
Far more likely to be a mink. They are bred to have all sorts of
strange colours, and are much more common.
It would be unusual to see a mink in a retail park, though.
Unless there was a river very close. My money is still on a squirrel with a
skin problem.
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