I think the only way your dog could get bitten is if your dog trapped it in a corner with no way for it to escape. It would then fight back.
This is very unlikely though as the stoat will know the dog is approaching and scarper long before the dog can get anywhere near it. Gone at a blink of an eye.
Saw him again this morning for about 5 mins, quite a bit closer so i saw how small they are actually, i dont think he will be a problem unless he is cornered.
I guess he lives close or has moved into my garden. Hope he can catch lots of short tailed voles, plenty about.
The mustelids are highly effective hunters, from the tiny weasel right up to the North American Wolverine. A wolverine or even our own badger (another mustelid) might be a threat to your dog a1154 but certainly not a stoat
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I think the only way your dog could get bitten is if your dog trapped it in a corner with no way for it to escape. It would then fight back.
This is very unlikely though as the stoat will know the dog is approaching and scarper long before the dog can get anywhere near it. Gone at a blink of an eye.
Your dog is perfectly safe. When I was a kid we had a big cat called Mickey who once came home while flinging a dead stoat into the air.
Saw him again this morning for about 5 mins, quite a bit closer so i saw how small they are actually, i dont think he will be a problem unless he is cornered.
I guess he lives close or has moved into my garden. Hope he can catch lots of short tailed voles, plenty about.
stoat or weasel? One is fairly weasely identified but the other's not stoatally different.................
The mustelids are highly effective hunters, from the tiny weasel right up to the North American Wolverine. A wolverine or even our own badger (another mustelid) might be a threat to your dog a1154 but certainly not a stoat
Ive not seen a wolverine in my garden so we are ok.
the dog will know to stay clear of the stoat I am sure