#BUT ferret furs also less common and skunks are not as common but still a long time furry staple

[skunkes]

this is just from personal experience but once again i think its soo weird how furry fandom is full of people who give skunks Big Pointy Wolf Ears + sometimes even wolf snouts/cat noses etc but ive never seen adjacent beasts, like stoats, weasels, ferrets, (pine) martens etc, be given the same treatment?

obviously the people who draw ferrets/stoats/etc correctly are not the same ppl drawing smunks like this (i hope). but why is it only skunks?? is it because the adjacent beasts were, i guess, less common in the past and are therefore handled with more nuance by ppl drawing em now?

i also cant think of any like media depiction with skunks having huge pointy wolf/cat ears?? so it must just be people seeing others drawing them that way ➡ doing the same? like a game of telephone instead of Looking at the beast... but where did it start???

or maybe i just keep running into ppl who are used to drawing only canids so all other species they try to draw look like that?? its so strange...again i personally havent seen any of the other listed beasts ever drawn like dis...like everyone knows those guys have rounded ears and shorter snouts....! its only skunks! why??