A ferret owner who know my fascination with all things mustelid sent me this link to a video clip showing Shawn Brihob, from the Columbus Zoo, being interviewed on a morning show and showing off two young marbled polecats.

You simply have to see this … these two little mustelids are just so cute and just seeing them pronk around the studio floor is absolutely wonderful :)
Something I found quite remarkable was that he (Shawn) was happy to chat to the interviewer while the two kits were dancing around the floor – I don’t think I could be that casual if I had my ferrets running around on a studio floor like that!  
In fact, I would say that, quite often if I’m stressed about things, I dream about having my ferrets in rooms with open windows and doors and I’m rushing around trying to round them all up!  I wake up in a total state of exhaustion and feel quite unrelaxed!  Ahhhh the pleasures of being a ferret owner ;-)
However … back to these marbled polecats … I am seriously jealous that I won’t ever see these little fellahs in the zoos here in Australia but I am really glad that they’re in the USA.  Apparently Columbus Zoo is one of six zoos around the States which have marbled polecats.
I hope that people seeing these two clowns prancing around will get to realise that mustelids really aren’t blood-thirsty carnivores but highly intelligent and amusing little critters that bring pleasure to people.
Well, I guess we can live in hope that that will happen :)  

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