The near-weasel, known as needle-fangs to treecats, was a predatory animal that Manticorans were familiar with and used in a proverbial sense. (HH6)
Athos and Cordelia Schardt-Cordova bonded following Cordelia and her Meyerdahl Rottweiler, Barnaby, being attacked by a swarm of near-weasels. (SK4)