You may have noticed by now that the riverbank folk generally lived in harmony, accepting newcomers like Rocky even when they weren’t native and were hard to understand. Rocky had settled in with Badger and they formed an unlikely friendship, one hardly speaking and the other nearly unintelligible, but they were part of the riverside community.
The only ones who never made an effort to fit in, carnivore or not, were the mink. They had invaded from outside, made no approaches to be friendly with the other creatures and stole! So unpopular were they that their name became Stinkers, instead of Mink.
One mid-Spring morning Dog-Otter was trotting along the riverbank when he heard Crow screeching hysterically from her nest in an ash tree. Alert to her cries of distress and danger, he loped over and saw a mink slinking down the tree with one of Crow’s chicks in her…
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Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 