mistake in mattimeo.

[ShamanSquirrel]

On page 374, the wearet is referred to as a rodent, even though his component species are a ferret and a weasel or stoat. None of those creatures are rodents. They are mustelids. Did Brian Jacques not know this?

[Captain Tammo]

Perhaps he did not know this! Nice job picking up on that bit of info, I know I didn't know about that!

[Vilu Daskar]

Probably just a mistake or an assumption.

[The Skarzs]

Well, mice and squirrels are much more vermin than foxes and the like, but I think since "rodent" is associated with something unwanted, the villains are all in a group that is rather assumed to be all forms of undesirable. And since the stories were directed toward a younger audience, such assumptions are easily overlooked.

[LordTBT]

The Wearet isn't a real creature. It's not a mistake because he is a fictional creation.

[ShamanSquirrel]

Even though the wearet is a fictional creation, the description of being a ferret/weasel hybrid and a rodent is still a contradiction.  But, since I'm enjoying this series, I'll let it slide.

In response to The Skarzs, the squirrels in the series are based upon the European red squirrel, a species rarely if ever considered vermin.  There are some other species of squirrels that are far more considered vermin, but then again, I think the term is subjective.  

Rodent, however, is not a subjective term. I personally don't consider it an insult.  It wouldn't be correct to use the term rodent and vermin interchangeably.  I noticed the ratio of goodbeasts who are rodents versus who are not is considerably higher than the ratio of foebeasts who are rodents versus those who are not.  In fact, rats are the only foebeasts who are rodents. So it would seem to me that rodents are actually generally good.

[The Skarzs]

So by your reasoning: Wearet=Goodbeast.

I don't think all the squirrels in Redwall were red; I believe only a few were. (Now that I think of it, though, the amount of red squirrels was more than the number of gray ones. . .)

[Jetthebinturong]

The squirrels in Redwall were all red, unless stated otherwise, as red squirrels are indigenous to Britain and grey squirrels are not.

[The Skarzs]

Really? Interesting. See, where I am there are no red squirrels at all, so it's hard to think of red squirrels as the common thing.

[Jetthebinturong]

Red squirrels aren't actually very common, because the grey squirrels that were accidentally brought over from America didn't like the red squirrels and they killed a lot of them.

[The Skarzs]

[Hickory]

And then we humans culled the grey squirrels, and then it kinda went back and forth.