Stoatal Awesomeness

🦦 He/it | 22 y.o | Plush Collection Page 🦦 Current Mustelid Count: 51

[weasel-posting]

Hello! I'm Pest, a plush collector with a special interest in mustelids, particularly weasels!

Contrary to the user, I collect and will be posting about my stuffed animals of different species as well, mustelids are just what I like the most :-)

Tag directory below:

#pest plush - Stuffed animals from my own collection

#others plush - Stuffed animal reblogs from other people

#stoat speaks - Ask and submission answers

#stoat scribbles - Drawings

#misc - Posts/reblogs unrelated to the main purpose of the blog (fundraisers go under here with #important)

#weasel post - Misc stuff but mustelids

^ I will also be tagging the species/character of plush I post if applicable ^

[plushtelid]

Mizu - Any pronouns - Yachi Onsen Japanese marten [Martes melampus melampus] Yahoo Auction, October, 2025

These plush each came with a different colour string, so happy we got the red, it suits well! From Yachi onsen. Made in Aomori. Could potentially be made by Alfa as Yachi onsen has produced similar toys with them.

Her kandi:

[bippybuddies]

Free Mola mola (ocean sunfish) pattern here!

[sierpinski-sunset]

it's a nice pattern. works up pretty fast, i think these two took me about an hour and a half each, but i wasn't really paying attention to anything! they're last-minute birthday presents for my brother and sister :)

[weasel-posting]

Plush ID: Webkinz signature black-footed ferret

Let's eat our new friend!!!

[weasel-posting]

Plush ID: Webkinz signature black-footed ferret

Let's bet it all on red (ball)

[silans-inner-child]

walking by the railway 🚃🍎

[trinketfairy]

Plushblr ask game

📅 When did you start collecting plushies?

❓ Why do you collect plushies?

🥇 What was your first/childhood plush?

⌛ Who is the oldest plush you own? Who's the newest?

💗 What are your favourite types of plushies to collect?

🔢 How many plushies do you own?

⭐ Who's your favourite plush you own?

☘️ What was your luckiest secondhand find?

🌠 Which plush is on the top of your wishlist?

🌍 Do you like to take your plushies out with you in public? Where to?

🎀 Do you like to accessorize your plushies? Have you ever made your own accessories for your plushies?

🖐️ Do you have a favourite texture or fabric for plushies?

🪀 Do you ever play with your plushies? What are your favourite ways of playing?

✏️ Do you like making your plushies into your own characters?

🪡 Have you ever made your own plush? If not, would you like to?

🖌️ Have you ever customized or modified a plush before?

🪄 If you could have any plush custom made for you, what would you get?

📚 Do you own a plush of a favourite character? Who is it?

⁉️ What's the strangest plushie you own?

🫂 Do your friends/family know about your plushies? What do they think about it?

💵 Do you prefer buying plushies new or secondhand?

🖱️ Do you prefer buying online or in-store?

💓 What's your favourite thing about plushies?

🪪 Favourite method of coming up with names?

🖥️ Are you apart of any plush collecting communities online?

💭 Do you believe that your plushies are sentient or conscious in some way?

🐕‍🦺 Would you consider any of your plushies "emotional support plushies?"

☀️ Have plushies positively affected your life? How?

Practice good ask game karma please and thank you

[trinket-e]

effie looks so cute

[weasel-posting]

What's that in the shrub?....

Plush ID: Douglas Cuddle Toys Vince black-footed ferret (current version)

A wild Rudderfish!! Also known to friends as Pilot Shark. I don't think he's aircraft certified though....(a bit of a dump about him below)

One of my favorites out of my collection, I like to bring him places with me!! He's seen all kinds of events, people tend to really like him wherever I take him which is nice. I bought him secondhand so while I've only had him for around 8 months he's actually going to be 9 years old this coming December (for those not familiar with DCT plush most have a manufacturing date on them)! I think he looks lovely for his age. He's probably the softest out of all my mustelids, the best thing about DCT is their fur quality for sure. I'm not too fond of the fact that some of their plush have no mouths though, which he originally didn't, so I had to embroider one onto him...he's so much cuter now

Here's a before and after!

All around a lovely BFF plush. Highly recommend :-)

[tinywebkinz]

oops! all puppies 🐕

[antiqueanimals]

Звери самые маленькие, 1927. Illustrated by Vasily Vatagin.

source

[zetakkritters]

Hyena family photo! An updated look at the hyena collection now that I've got 15 different hyenas

I'm trying to be pickier with the plush I buy and so there's not many more hyenas I am actually looking to get anymore, so I don't expect this collection to grow past maybe 20

I'm also not going to buy anymore plush for a while, I have things i'd like to save for and I have my whole ISO list pretty much so ya!

Anyway for fun here's the remaining hyenas i'd like to get, though the only ones I without a doubt want are the first one and the last two

[zetakkritters]

Custom plush collar guide!

Here's my little guide/tutorial for making a custom collar for your plush! You can use pretty much any printed fabric you want though I do recommend printed cotton (what I used for Nito's collar) or if you have a sublimation printer you can make your own printed fabric as well!

NOTES - This is not an adjustable collar, there are different steps for making one of those you will need to look up a guide for that.

Materials

Some kind of webbing material (I am using polyester webbing)

A ring

A buckle

Sewing machine (You could try and hand sew this with a running stitch but it may be difficult!)

Pins

Thread

Make sure your webbing fits through your buckle and ring!

Step 1 - Cut your webbing and fabric to length

First we need to cut the webbing to length, it is important to remember we need some extra length to secure the ring and the buckles in place. you can wrap the material around your plushies neck and then add a couple inches extra to either side or fold the material over and then hold it against your plushies neck to get the length you need.

Afterwards you can cut the material, if you're using polyester webbing then I do recommend using a lighter to melt where it was cut a bit to prevent fraying

next you'll want to lay your webbing down on your fabric and cut it out, make sure to leave extra material around the edges like you can see here

Step 2 - Pinning

Now we'll fold the excess fabric edges underneath and pin it to the webbing. I actually recommend folding the edges and then ironing them before pinning since it'll be waaaay easier and hold its shape, I brute force my way because i'm lazy. This part can be tricky so take your time with it and try to keep the folded edges as even as possible (basically avoid having one side folded under more than the other)

Once this is done we can begin sewing!

Step 3 - Sewing the fabric to the webbing

Now you'll sew all the way around to secure the fabric in place, try your best to keep things even I usually look at the edge of the machine and try and keep a consistent distance from the edge of the material i'm sewing.

I like to do two passes around, one further in and one right on the edge to ensure theres no gaps where the folded edge didn't get sewn down (example in second image), so I recommend you do two as well no need to use pins on the second round since it'll already be secured down

Step 4 - Adding the buckles and stuff

Now we'll add the buckles and the ring! First slide the ring onto the collar and then add your buckle, make sure to have enough length on the end to fold over both the ring and the buckle! Once you like the placement you can sew down the end, make sure to move the ring out of the way for this and be sure to sew on the top side

You'll want to sew forwards and backwards a few times to really secure it, I usually do around 5 - 6 passes

With that secured we'll now put the ring back in place and sew along the other side to secure it in place. Be careful! make sure you do not sew along the metal ring!

With the ring secure we can now finish off our collar! Slide the buckle on the other end, you can now test fit the collar on your plush and adjust the length by moving the buckle as needed

Once you've got it how you like sew down the edge like we did before making sure to do multiple passes to really secure it in place. Once that's done you're finished!

You can add tags, charms, anything really to the collar if you like. If you have an embroidery machine or do hand embroidery you can add their name directly to the collar like I did or even use an iron on paper to add a name that way as well

I hope this is helpful feel free to leave questions I will try and answer when I am able to ^^

[kiitchin]

Tarot

They got a new collar the other day. They are hoping to get a harness soon.

[sweetheart-10xo-deactivated2026]

[zetakkritters]

Ice castle adventures with Volta! Was lots of fun we went down an ice slide and got hot chocolate before we left

Also had a fun interaction with the wizard, he asked if Volta was my familiar and what their name was! This was my first time having someone ask questions like this before and it was really neat ^^

Anyways lots of fun despite the absolute freezing cold lol!

[wolfkinsanya]

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