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New visitors to our site may be surprised to learn just how often stuffed animals get mistaken for living, breathing creatures. We've previously published stories about inanimate objects resembling baby owls, the world's cutest rodent, an adorable bunny, a tiny platypus, and a mythical marbled fuark. In March 2018, we came across another felt doll to add to our ever-growing list of fake animal photographs. This time it supposedly featured a stoat, or a short-tailed weasel: This is undeniably a very cute snow floof, and the photograph is real in that it has not been digitally altered, but the image actually shows a felt doll that was available via Alena Mordvinova's Etsy shop in 2013. Mordinova posted several other images of the stoat doll, along with a message that in Russia, their name, laska, also means kindness; incidentally, in their white phase, these same animals are also called ermine: Both the actual stoat (left) and the felt doll (right) would definitely fall under the snow floof category, but only one is real:
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