>>58601553>no one thinks of chien-pao and sees a stoat, they see a snow leopard or sabertoothThey don't think of a stoat because they're not educated on animals, and they're unwilling to be corrected. That's like pointing at a bowl of Frosted Flakes and saying "Well, they're almost like Cheerios, so I'll just call them that."
Pokémon mustelids as a whole are regularly plagued by this shit. Sneasel, Weavile, Sneasler, etc. You also have Zangoose (Honorable non-mustelid mention.), which is obviously a mongoose, but it too gets looped under "feline" by uninformed mongrels.
