Examples of polecat

• There we had an exciting time, with allusions to polecats, blue herrings and grandfather rights, which took us into all sorts of flights of fancy.

• For her information, a fitch is from the mustela putorius species and it is a polecat.

• I think that the pure polecat is protected, but you do get a lot of escaped ferrets that revert to polecats.

• These are the fox, the badger, the polecat, the marten, the stoat, the otter, the wildcat, and even the weasel.

• Indeed, odious and poisonous; like a polecat, he never changes his spots.

• Other species, such as the polecat and the pinemarten, have needed careful management to encourage their fortunes to flow rather than to ebb.

• They are a very bold member of the weasel family and the largest, and only they and the polecat in that family are protected.

• It is not necessary that every time he rises he should give his famous imitation of a semi-house-trained polecat.