The one who wrote Coraline, and co-wrote the book of Good Omens and made the TV show, also the Sandman comics writer and co-creator who made the Sandman TV show. Quite nice really.
I mean, it’s actually not funny. Stoats were introduced to New Zealand by idiots who brought them to try and deal with the rabbits they had previously introduced to New Zealand, who were breeding like rabbits. And the stoats went “hurrah! A land where birds have no predators and some of them even lay their eggs in burrows! Let us feast in this new land!” So dealing with stoats is a real problem.
But Stoat on the Loose is such a great title. And it’s obviously followed up by Stoat on the Loose 2: Stoat in the Big City and Stoat on the Loose 3: Stoats in Space.
(warning for mention of how stoats brutally eliminate prey)
okay sorry to rant on your post but ur right this really isn’t funny
not only are stoats lose in New Zealand, this poster is talking about the Predator-free islands - small island off the coast of New Zealand that are nature reserves, many having populations of animals extinct on the mainland due to predators or extremely vulnerable to them - eg nesting grounds for endangered birds and such. Even ONE predator here could wreak havoc to a native species with such a small, at-risk population, AND GOD FORBID if a breeding pair somehow gets loose.
Those little fuckers may look cute and innocent but they are VICIOUS and go after wildlife not even to eat them, but for fun, they’ll leave killed animals (they seem to kill, at least the one that lived in my area, by tearing their prey’s throat out) on our lawn otherwise untouched. Just. Dead animals, not even killed for food cause they weren’t eaten. WTF stoats?? Who hurt you??
Then there’s -excuse my French - FUCKING possums. Those little shits decided that “when we eat leaves, lets do it to trees who can’t support having so much damage done to them! Also, LETS JUST COMPLETELY CHANGE OUR DIET FROM VEGETARIAN TO OMNIVOROUS BC FUCK YOUUUU BIRDS WE’RE GOING TO EAT YOUR EGGS” bitch, why
tangent aside, I know stoats, ferrets, rats, mice, rabbits and possums are cute, but man you have to get over it. They don’t belong here and they’re driving native species extinct. I know its a harsh take to have little to no sympathy for these invasive buggers, but there’s an entire country’s ecosystem at stake!! All the birds, bugs, plants and reptiles!! More and more of them are being driven extinct every year!! Keep your goddam cat inside if you live in New Zealand it’s killing the native birds too!!
On a related note, next time you travel to new Zealand, don’t complain about the strict restrictions on what you can take in, AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON’T SMUGGLE STUFF YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO BRING IN. Bacteria, tiny bugs and other small organisms can still be invasive and cause just as much havoc, and those protections are there for a reason!! FOLLOW THEM!
tl;dr THIS IS REALLY REALLY BAD AND ALTHOUGH I APPRECIATE THE HUMOUR MY KIWI HEART IS HIGH-KEY PANICKING, SOMEONE CATCH THAT STOAT OH GOD
Absolutely endorse this 100%.
And hedgehogs make me extra sad because they are doing so well in New Zealand, where they are not wanted, while the numbers crash in the UK, where they ought to be. And sometimes I imagine an airdrop of ten million hedgehogs from New Zealand to the UK and tiny hedgehogs in parachutes…
