I saw video from Moses this weekend I thought was pretty rare.  Two muskrats ganged up on three mink and prodded them out of their territory. That’s like a steak jumping off your plate and trying to herd YOU to market. Muskrats are food for mink, not the other way around.  Apparently it’s rare but not unheard of. Here’s what Bob Arnebeck  has to say about it, and his video he caught  of the defense. (watch close at 34)

Minks are sneaky little predators with a reputation for killing everything up to twice their size. They like to cache what they kill in their dens, and once, according to a book I read, somebody found 13 dead muskrats there. Muskrats are big rats that spend most of their nibbling grasses in and around ponds and rivers. They can swim, but so can minks. They are bigger than minks but not that much bigger.Then a few years later I was sitting beside a pond once and saw a mink making its rounds along the opposite shore. It poked it nose in the wrong muskrat burrow. Go, rat, Go!

Here’s a short homage to the underdogs….

Don’t Blink! A Mink. (I think)

Sweet! What do they eat? Fish? Meat?

Muskrat! Oh, that? Well,  drat!

Poor little guy! I wonder why? He has to die.

What  are they? Prey? You don’t say. Hey!

Ack! I thought they were a snack! Look out, attack!

and here’s how its SUPPOSED to happen

No mink this morning, just three beavers, an apple-green spider,  and muskrats square dancing.