I found this video clip of a European polecat on YouTube. What an absolutely stunning animal!

I bred a very dark sable male years ago who was the son of our first ferret and he could easily have been mistaken for a polecat, as you can see from this photo of him. I’ve never had such a dark male since

CJ was just the most gorgeous boy and he had an equally gorgeous personality - he was my weasel wardancer extraordinaire and it broke my heart when he developed insulinoma and spent the rest of his days sleeping.

Well, enough prattling about CJ … here’s the clip of the bunzing taken in a forest somewhere in Friesland, in the north of Holland