User blog comment:Lady-warrior/Ferrets are Sweethearts/@comment-7207319-20140530173513/@comment-3135907-20140604022745

Occasionally. Their main diet is not other animals. Ferrets, weasels, and other mustelids are obligate carnivores, while badgers are omnivores. Still, it doesn't change that ferrets, along with every other "vermin" species depicted as evil in Redwall, are carnivores. The topic of the article was that "Ferrets are Sweethearts" and should be accepted as heroes, since they are clearly vilified unjustly by Jacques... it isn't unjust. It is simply their diet and behavior in the wild in regard to other animals that are portrayed as "good" in-series.