That's a gorgeous cat

Wow, the depth of field makes this look so cinematic! Great camera work!

@abeedhal6519

7 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Cat's like sheeeet what's that? :...prey or predator?

@MS-ns2pj

8 ай бұрын

The Preydator. 🤔

@hannahcallow6374

10 күн бұрын

Nah, it was all 'aww, hoppy kitten playing big boi with arched back..... Hang on. Wait. Wait. What? Oh, too many choices"

The cat looks so confused! 😂

@Ayniadk

8 ай бұрын

Yep. I think it was. Probably expected a mouse! :-)

Polecat knew exactly what is was doing.

First time I see the name Polecat being used, had to look it up.😂 Marten, Mink, Weasel, Ermine, Ferret. Names I know, and names I mix up quite easily. Even in my own language. Nice to have one more in the mix. 😅

@kotukuwhakapiko467

7 ай бұрын

Stoat?

@miles11we

7 ай бұрын

The whole mustelid family is full of really cool animals. + the marbled polecat looks like somebody stuffed their ferret into some old beanie babies. Crazy looking guys.

That’s a gorgeous polecat, the cat is ok too. I have a polecat (sometimes referred to as a masked sable) ferret. She is an absolute little sweetheart.

@jeannerogers7085

Жыл бұрын

Thanx - I was trying to figure out just what that critter was.

@wolfshanze5980

9 ай бұрын

You probably just have a ferret. If you bought it at a pet store its definitely a ferret. Polecats and Ferrets are two different species in the same family... closely related but with two very major distinctions. Polecats are NOT DOMESTICATED... they are Wild Animals. Ferrets have two thousand years of domestication in them... also, because of this difference, Polecats have much stronger bites than a ferret and is an excellent predator in the wild... most domestic Ferrets would simply perish in the wild from lack of natural hunting skills and weaker bite strength from two thousand years of selective breading where these traits just weren't needed and have mostly been bred-out of existence. As close cousins they do appear nearly identical at a glance, but are distinctly different species.

@mycolliesandme268

7 ай бұрын

​@@wolfshanze5980They are called polecat ferrets because when they have the same face markings, not sold in pet shops in the UK , but bred by enthusiasts and people that use them to hunt rabbits. They do have polecat in their DNA. And escaped ones or lost during hunting can become feral and have been known to breed with wild polecats. I have kept ferrets for many years.

OMG, those hops! Polecats rule!

You could see the cat thinking "I could have that! errr why isn't it afraid of me?.. Maybe not then..."

"Hello cat, I am polecat. OK byyyeeeee"

The Polecat is so small!

@Ayniadk

2 жыл бұрын

He is quite tiny. Pity I didn't get it closer! Thought it was a pheasant in the distance. Black specks on the path... then I thought it was a mink. It caught something (maybe a frog) and ran off with it. I waited a bit and was annoyed that the kitty came along. Luckily I didn't move on!! 🙂

@PR4U2NV

Жыл бұрын

..and very dangerous!

@IrishWildlifeWatch

Жыл бұрын

@@PR4U2NV Yes!

@kevinwarburton2938

Жыл бұрын

But deadly

@illusorytrutheffect

7 ай бұрын

@@kevinwarburton2938nah it couldn’t kill a cat especially not if that size. But it could cause some damage for sure. Thats why the cat knew better than to mistake it for easy prey lol

Cat: omg what the hell is that Polecat: sup dude Cat: what you doing here? Polecat: just chillin

Looks like a Mink. Very dark animal there. Polecats are blonde under their outer fur. Looks a bit small to for a Polecat too 🤔

Polecat Runs into The Woods. Cat Has The Expression Of WTF is That.

Cat thinking what the hell is this 😂

beautiful 😍❤️😍❤️

Im not sure what it is with Polecats, Pine Martens etc but it is possible to get quite close to them before: 1. they either seem to notice you or 2. they start to care. Maybe they have poor vision or smell.

Cat: "What do I do here?"

Polecat to me is a nickname for a skunk. Even though I’ve lived for about a decade in Europe, I had never heard of a European Polecat. Looked it up..yep, that’s a polecat and one very confused cat.

@1armeddrummerinaprisonrock244

7 ай бұрын

thats not a skunk. its a marten

Cat “ That’s a mouse and a half!”

Polecat v loafcat

Ooh. Can I eat it........ Yeah, nah.

Here in the United States, polecat is another name for a skunk.

Oh . it's running away . I'll soon catch it .

Cat: If I stand still it won't see me.. hate when it comes to borrow money. 🙃

Did they each size the other up for a possible fight and think better of it?

@Ayniadk

Жыл бұрын

The polecat had been up and down a few times- I think it was catching frogs and hiding them, but it was a bit far for me to see. When the cat came along, I thought the polecat would vanish, but it didn't. Must have been very busy. The cat seems to have heard something in the grass or undergrowth and being a cat it decided to wait. I think they were both surprised to see each other.

Hey Ayniadk, do you have an email address at which we could contact you regarding this video? We would be interested to discuss a license to use this video if this is generally possible? (i.e. via email) 🙂 Cheers, Felix

To attack, or not attack......That is the question

My thought immediately it was a mink?

It's not a polecat it's a Mink.

@Ayniadk

Жыл бұрын

100% polecat. You can see its bandit mask. It was catching frogs and stashing them somewhere.

@jimmyolsen5897

Жыл бұрын

Haha haha hahahahaha hahahahaha

@billyc768

Жыл бұрын

Wrong. It's a polecat. I guess you think a polecat is a skunk, which it isn't.

@vanivor

Жыл бұрын

I'd ha e gone with mink also, it's very dark for a polecat, but if it has the mask your right it must be a polecat, never seen one so dark before

Polecat it looks more like a rat or weisel or maybe a combination of the two LOL

👀Interesting on how oblivious the pole cat is. I guess eye sight isn't their major sensory input 👀

@soramirez5473

Ай бұрын

i dont think it cares. my ferrets walk right up to my neighbors pitbulls mouth

@soramirez5473

Ай бұрын

my ferrets also try to get at inside the Vacuum cleaner while its on. the cats run for their lives from tht thing

@DougguoD

Ай бұрын

@@soramirez5473 Can't be an evolutionary lack of polecat/ferret predators as some sort of dog/cat is pretty much everywhere (well, before us humans moved in) and I'd think they've learned what to stay away from 🤔 domestic raised is completely diff as they haven't learned that sort of stuff, though I'd think some remnants of survival instinct would be inherent.

@DougguoD

Ай бұрын

@@soramirez5473 Oh look, a tunnel! 😄

@soramirez5473

Ай бұрын

@@DougguoD yea but that wouldnt account for the fact that a cat runs AWAY from vacuums and plastic noisy bags, and ferrets run TOWARDS them.. and if we see video of ANY mustelid, its obvious that weasals, ferrets, minks, badgers and wolverines dont scare easy, even from predators MUCH bigger than themselves.. given that members in that family seem to be more brave than smart, its logical to assume this ferret didnt care, as oppose to not seen the cat.

Polecats mark their territory with a stinky musk. When europeans came to america and smelled a skunk, it reminded them of polecats, hence the name.

@wolfshanze5980

9 ай бұрын

Skunks and Polecats are actually cousins, they're both in the muskelid family.

Cats thinking 😼💭 What the ….

Why cut there? What happened next?

@afonsodeportugal

8 ай бұрын

You have to watch the next episode to find out! That's how they keep you hooked!

The polecat was lucky!

@rodricktownsend

3 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂 clearly you guys don’t know what a polecat is.. the polecat smells are 10 times worse than a skunk so he wasn’t afraid of the cat and the cat instinctively knew better

@soramirez5473

Ай бұрын

doubt it. a polecat that size is more than enough to put up a good fight vs a cat three times its size.

Not the fastest get away.

That’s no polecat.

Wtf is a polecat? 😂 That's a ferret or weasel.

@itsroxannetime289

Жыл бұрын

It's a ferret cuz weasels are much smaller than ferrets

@wolfshanze5980

9 ай бұрын

​@@itsroxannetime289no, a polecat is a polecat... ferrets are ferrets... two distinctly different species. European Polecats are wild animals and very good hunters, ferrets have two thousand years of domestication under their belt and don't survive long in the wild.

@nuss1e

8 ай бұрын

The difference between a weasel & a stoat is- weasels are weasely recognised, & stoats are stoately different😀

@Kingsaxxy3872

3 ай бұрын

Polecats are a wild European species of Mustelid, meaning it’s part of the Weasel family. Ferrets are also descended from these guys.

Looks more like a mink

@Ayniadk

Жыл бұрын

Full screen on a computer and you can see it has a bandit mask! So not mink! :-)

@zoewilson7383

Жыл бұрын

@@Ayniadkyes you are right I have zoomed in and can see a mask

Good result no one got hurt.

Domestic cats are invasive and shouldnt be free roaming the forests

Cat: "Is that a funny looking rat?". Polecat: "Is that a funny looking rabbit?". Cat and Polecat together: "Nah".

@wolfshanze5980

9 ай бұрын

My running gag in my house (I have cats and Ferrets) is the Ferrets think the cats are "short-eared, long-tailed rabbits".

I always thought a Polecat is just another name for a Skunk. That looks like a ferret or a weasel.

@snezhab4779

Жыл бұрын

Well you thought wrong.

@Kingsaxxy3872

3 ай бұрын

It is part of the Weasel so you’re right, and Ferrets are descended from these guys too.

Я за кота болела.. он милый..куница приносит много вреда домашним животным

In the US, a polecat is a skunk!

@broadbandislife

Жыл бұрын

NOBODY CARES AQUAMAN

That’s a Weasel, the cat would probably kill it easy.

@jacobesterson

Жыл бұрын

Weasels can bite through bone and are far more agile. Either could kill the other, but honestly a weasel would probably come out on top simply due to agility.

@fyfyi6053

Жыл бұрын

@@jacobesterson You geniuses do know that cats hunt and eat weasels.

@nightlightabcd

Жыл бұрын

@@fyfyi6053 Yes, but weasels can and do fight off cats!

@rpoutine3271

Жыл бұрын

@@nightlightabcd Just like how rabbits sometimes fight off weasels.

@wolfshanze5980

9 ай бұрын

Ummm... NO. Learn your animals... weasels are tiny, not much bigger than a mouse... polecats are much bigger than weasels by a Longshot. Clearly not a weasel to anyone who spent 30 seconds or more looking up members of the Mustelid family.

Good to know in Europe, polecat means weasel. In America polecat means skunk. Good thing for the cat, they are in Europe.

@ronhall9394

Жыл бұрын

Weasels (in Europe) are a different think to a polecat. In the UK of the smaller Mustelidae we have the Weasel, the Stoat, the Polecat and (much rarer) the Pine Martin plus invasive Mink. Tamed Polecats - Ferrets - are quite popular as pets and hunting partners.

@broadbandislife

Жыл бұрын

The American polecat, also known as "black-footed ferret", would like a word with you. Silly colonials getting their words wrong again.

@dominicyelin

Жыл бұрын

​@@ronhall9394 there are eurasian minks too. Not all of them are american.

@wolfshanze5980

9 ай бұрын

​@@broadbandislifeactual species trees would like a word with you... Polecats and black footed Ferrets are two completely different species... they don't even look alike and are easily visually distinct from one another.

@broadbandislife

9 ай бұрын

@@wolfshanze5980 "The black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes), also known as the American polecat[2] or prairie dog hunter,[3] is a species of mustelid native to central North America. The black-footed ferret is roughly the size of a mink and is similar in appearance to the European polecat and the Asian steppe polecat. It is largely nocturnal and solitary, except when breeding or raising litters.[4][5] Up to 90% of its diet is composed of prairie dogs.[6][7] " - Wikipedia ...and looking at the photos on the site the three species mentioned indeed look quite similar. Not unrelated: derived from a common ancestor, the extinct _Mustela stromeri._ They even produce fertile hybrids, whereas unions with the somewhat more distantly related (and visually markedly more differing) European mink tend to result in sterile ones. The ferret is thought to be basically just a domesticated European polecat; mentions of the little guys go right back into Antiquity. "Polecat" is _also_ applied to a an entirely different subfamily of _Mustelidae,_ the _Ictonychinae,_ whose members are mostly found in Africa and South America. "It includes the grisons, Patagonian weasel, striped polecats, African striped weasel, and marbled polecat.[2][3] These genera were formerly included within a paraphyletic definition of the mustelid subfamily Mustelinae.[4]" ...you may note some fairly errant applications of "weasel" there too. Back in the day common names were given on basis of similarity of appearance etc.

Polecat in America is a skunk

@slayer9240

Жыл бұрын

Two totally different animals.

@broadbandislife

Жыл бұрын

_We're not living in America_ _We're not sorry_ - The Sounds

My money was on the small, black one.

Quality filming.

Polerat would be more apt.