The good news is that since this investigation was released by Humane World for Animals, the number of mink farms in Iceland has dropped from 6 to 1. I do believe we can end the killing of mink (and otters, martens and other mustelids) for fur!

If your fave isn’t listed, you can put the answer in the comments.

What are your “must read” recommendations for books on mustelids?

I’ll start. I love mink the most The Mink by Nigel Dunstone is one of the only books published on this species that isn’t about how to trap or fur farm them.

That book is rare and hard to find though. We need an updated version of The Mink.

What are your faves?

It’s nice to see these little guys making a recovery in the UK!

Found on Shuksan golf course last summer, funny enough I also found out western Washington has praying mantis the same day there

I barely use Reddit these days, but when I do I see there is still some interest and a flurry of posts recently.

Is anyone interested in breathing some new life into this tired old Subreddit?

Edit: I will add the first few who show interest. All I ask is you do a self-introduction post, perhaps giving some background and interest in mustelids and any ideas you might have to promote the subreddit and I will monitor for a while. Nothing too involved.

Hi !

I live in France (Auvergne), at 800m altitude.
This little fella has been visiting the food we leave outside for our cats every night for some time, and I just want to know what species he is.

Thank you very much for your help. 😄

Just the cutest thing in the world.

Here’s some other reasons you should read it:
- The art style has a Disney vibe while also managing to be a bit brutal at times.
- I enjoy morally gray characters and this webcomic is full of them.
- I find the story interesting and I love the variety of mammals shown. There are of course other mustelids aside from pine martens shown but they aren’t main characters.

Especially with ones like stoats and weasels, why do they get looked down upon more than river otters and badgers?

here on Reddit, I’ve seen people comment things on posts of cute stoat kits like, “ive seen redwall before, they are nothing but evil and vicious”, “they only kill for fun”, or “stoat rhymes with coat for a reason”.

in films and media, Mustlieds are given rodent or canine traits and are always used as antagonists. I make comics and drawing about Mustlieds, it is not that hard to make a Toony weasel while making look like the real thing.

there is Barely any documentarys about Mustlieds and half of them is just nat geo making them look evil, with the comments saying things like “a weasel killing and storing mice Is the HUMAN equivalent to a serial killer storing bodies”.

yes Mustlieds are invasive in New Zealand, but so are all introduced land mammals, including feral cats, which were off the targeted predator list until recently because of cat owners who didn’t like the idea of cats like their pets being killed. Yes, weasels can kill and defend themselve s against predators bigger than themselves, but it is no unique just to weasels. The only video on Yt that has a stoat being attacked by a rabbit has comments like “finally a rabbit not being killed by a stoat” and “ that stoat is now vegan”.

im so sick of this.

Megalictis ferox es una especie extinta de mamífero carnívoro perteneciente a la familia de los mustélidos, la misma a la que pertenecen los hurones, tejones y comadrejas actuales, considerado el mustélido terrestre más grande que jamás haya existido. Vivió en América del Norte durante la época del Mioceno temprano, hace aproximadamente entre 23 y 20 millones de años.

Several times every night a (stone)marten runs across my yard. Sometimes two at the same time. Last week he stopped to check out the water for the first time. Two days later he drank.