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Christina Websell wrote: 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. Don't you believe it! They aren't as urban as some animals, but get to a lot more places than people realise. And they aren't exclusively aquatic, unlike otters. My money is still on a squirrel with a skin problem. That's certainly a very likely scenario. It might have caught its tail in something, for example. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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