domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits.
The polecat is just as much a sneak and a thief as it’s domesticated cousin and the name reflects that.
A weasellike, usually albino mammal(Mustela putorius furo)related to the polecat and often trained to hunt rats or rabbits.
Water voles are declining, but brown hare and polecat populations are rising. Greater and lesser horseshoe bat populations have risen 32% and 41% respectively over the past 10 years.
