Depends on type of polecat or mink you use.
American Mink vs European Polecat: Mink for sure, it's larger and more aggressive. Not to mention, being an invasive species to the U.K. (where I live). The mink is also a swimmer, meaning if it took place in water, the mink trumps it. The mink is also considerably more slender, despite it's size advantage.
European Polecat vs European Mink: This could go either way, I'm slightly leaning towards the mink though, again, because of it's possible agility because of it's slenderness.
American Mink vs Steppe Polecat: This could go either way, again, but I'm slightly leaning towards the Polecat. It should be larger and heavier.
European Mink vs Steppe Polecat: Polecat wins. It's larger, heavier and more powerful.
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Sounds like some kind of marten; might have been a mink or a polecat, depends on the colour. If it was dark with no markings then mink, but if it was fairly brown then it could either have been a marten or polecat.
Depends on where you live and the condition of the polecat.
I don't think so, but ferrets can interbreed with wild polecat ferrets. In Russia, a hybrid was created of a ferret and a European mink, named "Khonorik". Its parents were a hybrid male of a polecat ferret (wild x steppe) and a female of European mink, making it a hybrid of three species. Later on Khonoriks were bred from a thoroughbred wild European polecat ferret and European mink.
A pink eyed polecat is an albino ferret that was domesticated from the European polecat ferret
Marbled polecat was created in 1770.
Striped polecat was created in 1810.
European polecat was created in 1758.
If a homozygous brown mink is mated with a silver-blue mink, the offspring would all be heterozygous for brown. When crossed with a silver-blue mink, half of the offspring would inherit the silver-blue allele, so out of 8 offspring, 4 would be silver-blue.
The marbled Polecat is not cat at all!
a pink mink would not drink pink ink because a pink mink can't drink pink ink.
A polecat is unlikely to eat a domestic cat, as they typically feed on smaller animals like rodents, rabbits, and birds. However, if a polecat were significantly hungry and the cat was small or vulnerable, it might attempt to attack. Generally, polecats and cats occupy different ecological niches, making such encounters rare. In most cases, a cat would probably avoid a polecat due to its defensive nature and scent.