Polecat is back in town!

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 at 5:06 am

How cool is this news? Apparently polecats disappeared from this particular area during WWI, so it’s been a while without the little mustelid.

Hopefully the polecats will go forth and multiply and not get trapped or killed by people, or cars, or dogs, or whatever else!

Monday, 18th September 2006
John Williams

THE polecat is returning to the Cheshire countryside for the first time in nearly a century.

Wildlife experts have reported sightings of the animal near Macclesfield, Wilmslow and Middlewich. With its long cat-sized body, bushy tail and black and white face, the polecat is easily recognisable.

Now the Cheshire Wildlife Trust is appealing for anyone sighting of the polecat – which is a member of the weasel family – to notify officials so they can monitor its return to the county.