Saw a family of Weasels, a mum and 3 kittens. The kittens were quite big so must be about to move out soon.
Beautiful creatures. Won't say where as I hope they live and prosper without DOC coming along and killing them. I'd rather see the odd weasel than another boring native bird.
Also the area they are in is lousy with rabbits so they'll be doing a good job .
Reminds me as a kid when I saw a family of foxes gassed by my uncle who was a farmer. The idiot saw them purely as a pest but failed to realize that they were doing a grand job of keeping the local rabbits from eating his crops and the rats getting into his gain. He had no chickens and the only other victim was the odd farm cat which have a short and barbarous life anyhow with or without Mr Fox .