I am in awe … total awe!

A few days ago I had an email from a lady in Kuwait who asked me if she could send me a photo of her ferret and if I could just tell her what kind it was.

I thought, yes, okay. Maybe it was a strange looking silvermitt, or a very dark sable and so perhaps could have been mistaken for a mink or something but never, ever did I expect to see a picture of a marbled polecat!

Have you ever seen such an adorably weird looking mustelid like this? It is just so cute! Strange, but so incredibly cute!!! I remember when I first saw a photo of one of these creatures, I thought what a funny looking polecat! I never imagined that someone would actually have one as a pet.

When I wrote back and told her what kind of mustelid she had, I also asked if she would be so kind and describe what her polecat was like as a pet as I really wanted to put that down on my
Mustelid page when I got around to writing about it.

I was thrilled to get a description of how Emo (that’s his name) is super hyper when he wakes up, and how he climbs all over the place, digs, chews stuff, and gets really excited when he sees his owner. It also made me laugh to read how when Emo gets frightened, he arches his back and lets out a stink bomb … and I bet his stink bomb is way worse than any of our boys could do :)

It seems like Emo is really a ferret at heart and I am so envious that I will never get to have a marbled polecat for a pet. Well, unless we end up living in Kuwait which – at the moment – is not a possibility! LOL!

So, now I have to dip my quill in ink and get cracking with writing about the Marbled Polecat (Vormela peregusna).

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