User blog comment:Lady-warrior/Ferrets are Sweethearts/@comment-33198517-20150528024047

Ferrets are awesome, and should be given more leeway. The animal I feel the most sorry for is the rats. Although they are grubby and carry diseases, a rat is usually just a small herbivore. The reason people view them and mice so differently is because they're both pests, but a rat is slightly bigger so people make a HUGE deal about them, while if its a mouse and its doing the same thing, they just think its cute. Secondly, rats do NOT normally eat other mammals, but choose to eat seeds and plants. I will admit though, some rats get to monstrous sizes and get a little vicious. Rats are more scavengers and foragers than Hunters. Anyways, all the other Redwall vermin would just eat them, considering in real life they are pretty much equivalent to mice.