44 Replies to “Stoats In The News”

  1. Wildlife is supplying the bulk of news these days, you know that something is cooking when it happens.

  4. I’ve never heard of a stoat until this.
    now the entire fcukin world know about stoats. er, live hood ornaments.

  5. Maybe from the Glut some will dig for Hard News so i dont have to pay for sappy journalism pictures of gophers.

  6. stoats,aka weasels.Have two of the little buggers in backyard.Funny thing.they and my three cats get along great.Well,except when it comes to feeding time.Between them all,not a mouse within 3 yards.Love it.

  7. “I’ve never heard of a stoat until this.”
    What? Never read The Wind in the Willows? For shame!

  8. I was asked to move a pile of old lumber when I was a kid and was amazed to find hundreds of dead mice all missing their noses. Toward the centre of the pile I came across a nest of stoats. According to my mother, and she never told me an untruth, stoats prefer to drink the blood of a freshly killed animal that to eat the animal’s body. Hence the stoats chewed off the nose of the mouse and drank the blood as it poured out of the mouse’s nose.

  11. The gopher is just too cute… Gag.
    It’s actually warmly familiar to me. The only difference is that when I peep through my lens, the image is quartered by the cross hairs.
    😉

  12. Mad Mike you use a scope to hunt gophers? How unsportsman of you. A true gopher hunter takes an old Cooey .22 repeater with shorts and uses open sights!

  13. Great point Kate. Western culture is in crisis and at war internally with political and cultural forces which want to destroy it and all we get from the MSM is puff stories about rodents. They have no interest in anything substantial. In a government this huge it should be easy to uncover 2 dozen corruption stories but nooooooo. People want fluffy bunny stories.
    I guess the deacay and corruption of western society is something we can’t talk about publicly, no news marketing potential. shhhh – we’re busy twacking wabbits.

  14. Joe:
    Heh. I agree.
    As a matter of fact…It’s a Cooey model 69 repeater, but the iron sights got knocked off in the bush somewhere. Being unable to find parts for the old rifle, a scope was the best solution.
    And I prefer .22LR hollow points; much more humane kill.
    Sorry to drift off-topic, Kate.

  15. There is news aplenty out there.
    Corruption, lawlessness, and scandals are inundating Canada and the U.S. at every level of government.
    The recession is turning or has turned into a depression, but investigative journalism, in past times known as simply journalism, is in the tank because the side that “journalists” favour, the side they are biased toward, are the culprits.
    What do we get instead?
    Fluff pieces.
    It’s mind numbing and fosters malaise, but that is probably the goal.
    It’s a sad day for journalism when the competition for a Pulitzer Prize is who can get the best story out about a stoat or the cutest angle on a jumped up gopher.
    Paaah-thetic.
    (“mommy? what did you do during the revolution at the opening of the 21st century?” –“I got 49th prize in the varmint photography competition.”)

  17. Sigh. Journalists have such klittle to do but repeat each other’s stories.
    I’m surprised by the squirrel, though. I’d expect it of a Chipmonk, but this was some curious squirrel.

  18. I stoat a slot car from the Thrifty Acres Store when i was a kid and almost got caught. Cured me quick!

  23. I’m actually much happier with our betters in the journalistic trade reporting on rodents than I would be if they were trying to cover subjects of any importance.

  25. Give the poor buggers in the MSM a break, they just got busted for endlessly milking the arguably most shallow story ever about Harper, and then it turns out to be a fabrication.
    So they must be laying low for a little while with these feel stupid stories before going back to their regularly scheduled prefab bullshit.
    I guess the bad news is that we’ll see our publicly funded broadcaster, the so called CBC, reporting again on the latest Archie comics.
    Call me crazy, but if I wanted to know what Archie was up to, I’d buy the damn damn comic book.
    http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/05/28/archie-comics-proposal.html

  28. I was raised in small town near the Canada-USA border. In the winter, our well sometimes went dry. Dad would send me to town with a three ton truck and a 1000 gal tank of water. My treat was stoppping at the local Diner for a burger and a coffee. (The old Ford had a poor heater.)
    One day, I’m unloading the tank when a cat climbs onto the frame of the truck. The tank gets empty, I pull the “down” lever on the hoist, forgetting about the black cat who now has his little head jamed between the hoist and the frame of the old F-8.
    I get to town, but before I fill the tank at the water plant, I decide to pull up to the Diner where about 20 people are eating a wide variety of local specials. I’m totally unaware of the dead cat that is hanginmg from the frame of the old Ford.
    I’ve always been known as a prankster. Try and explain to 20 people that the cat is hanging there, “purely by accident.” It was not one of my better days.

  29. If stoats are as tough as their weasel cousins, this wasn’t much of a hardship. I came across a fisher, in a leghold trap, 25 years ago. I decided to do the humane thing, and bash its head in. I hit it about 5 times, on the head, with a legal survey pin.
    I drove past it the next day, after an overnight temperature of -30, and to my horror, I could see it breathing. This time, I decided not to worry about ruining the fur.
    I hate leghold traps. They’re evil.

  31. Joe and mae mike:
    while open sight shooting is fun, this:
    http://www.savagearms.com/93r17f.htm
    with a scope that zooms them up to looking like a moose is a blast and deadly accurate well past 100 yds (they fairly jump out of the hole). Expensive at 20 cents round, but better than golf any day.

  32. 100 yds!! Gord Turk?
    One of the reasons Grandma would only let me use .22 shorts is because they wouldn’t carry very far. You know just in case I didn’t do a thorough down range check and hit a cow or horse.
    Best day was a hot day in June when I took a box of 50 shorts with the ole cooey and came back about 2 hours later with 52 gophers.

  33. The squirrel photo is the feel-good image of the year.
    The moment I saw it I burst into the kind of warm, pure laughter that cleans away weeks of overwork and underfun.
    That the couple in the background appear to be a pair of unassuming decent Canadians, feeling sincere delight at the moment, only adds to the pleasure.
    Some of you people seem to think that the publication of this photo is indicative of a decline in civilization.
    I say that civilization will have declined when we can’t take pleasure in simple silly moments like this one.

  34. the squirrel is “unavailable for comment”
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
    funny

  35. I laughed at the squirrel photo. If it’s real and not Photoshopped, it’s a classic.
    mhb

  37. Journalism as a career should be restricted to relatives of the owner/publisher and unpaid grown up trust fund babies.

  38. The Squirrel shot’s awesome! You couldn’t have set that one up…
    This type of journalism has been around forever. It’s usually filler for slow news days.
    And really, would you rather another biased story on the evils of “Steve” Harper? I prefer fluff to lies. The less the media says, the fewer lies they tell. Squirrel stories are probably more intelligent than most of the crap they come up with anyway.

  41. stoats,aka weasels. Err no. Stoats (Mustela erminea) are stoats and weasels (Mustela nivalis) are….weasels. Two distinct species. The Stoat is bigger than a weasel.

  42. Realist – I couldn’t have said it better myself.
    As for the rest of you – you really, really want an endless, unrelenting diet of bad news? Nothing but stories about the economic crisis, corrupt politicians, catastrophes (natural and man-made), human rights abuses and all the rest of it? You are so focussed on all the horrible things that go on in the world that you are upset about a funny picture about a cute little rodent?
    Will Shakespeare knew the importance of injecting comic relief into his tragedies – it in no way diminished the greatness of his plays.
    Jeesh!

  44. I swear on the hord ornament of by Lincoln Town Car that it was accidental! It id spoil their lunch!

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