When Two Adorable Stoat Kits Meet for the First Time | Weasel Wildlife Rehabilitation

I was just preparing Whisper the stoat kit I am hand rearing for a life in the wild and had got so far as adding branches to her enclosure for her to learn to climb up when I was contacted by some people in Norfolk who had a kit the same age as Whisper that needed rehabilitating. This was excellent news. In the wild stoats grow up in litters of seven or eight kits. They learn how to fight and hunt through play and so I knew that it would do both stoat kits the world of good to have one another for company. So, after a lot of driving, I got the new stoat kit here. The people in Norfolk who rescued the kit had named it Stuart, but it turned out to be a female. Still both kits are exactly the same age and size and so she is an ideal friend for Whisper. The short film below shows you what happened when I introduced them. It’s important to remember that when both kits were rescued their eyes were still shut and so neither had seen another stoat before. I carried Stuart(a) over to Whisper&