A stoat is species of mustelid and one of the many enemies of rabbits.

Books

Two stoats attack General Woundwort's army as they go to invade Watership Down, but Woundwort fights them off, insisting that "stoats aren't dangerous."

In Tales from Watership Down, Kehaar defends the Watership Down rabbits from a stoat when they go to scout out the site intended to build the Vleflain warren. Groundsel expresses worry about living in a place "crawling with stoats," but agrees to the location.

TV series

In the second season's tenth episode, "The Mysterious Visitors," a stoat attacks Pipkin on a cliff, before being distracted by Kehaar. Pipkin manages to escape by leaping off the cliff and onto a bed of moss, heather, and soft grass piled underneath by Hazel and the others.

Several weasels that appear in the third season of the series also appear to be stoats because of their black tail tips.

Non-rabbit characters

Cross-media Badger • Bob (dog) • Cats • Crows • Dogs • Fox • Hawks • Hedgehogs • Kehaar (gull) • Owls • Tab (cat) • Stoat • Weasels Humans Lucy • Mr. Cane • Mrs. Cane • Schoolmaster Folklore Lord Frith • Prince Rainbow • Rowsby Woof (dog) Books/Graphic novel only Introduced in Watership Down Calico cat • Doctor Adams (human) • Hawock (pheasant) • King Darzin (beaver) • Unnamed Mouse Introduced in Tales from Watership Down Chief Rook (rook) • First Cow • Flairgold (glanbrin) • King of Tomorrow (deer) • King of Yesterday (bison) • Lekkri (gull) • Old Brock (badger) • Second Cow • Shindyke (glanbrin) • Third Cow • Unnamed Glanbrin • White Bull • Whitethorn (cow) • Zhuron (illip) Film only Cemetery Owl TV series only Bark (badger) • Calohki (puffin) • Darkling (bat) • Drumlin (mole) • Duster (dog) • Flitter (bat) • Frost (lamb) • Gluk (gull) • Hannah (mouse) • Hedge the Wizard (turtle) • Hyacinth (pig) • Kaka (gull) • Katerina (gull) • Parrots • Puffins • Ruffle (moorhen) • Skree (hawk) • Slate (turtle) • Tabitha (cat) • Tassel (squirrel) • Trill and Wobble (birds) • Weasel • Yona (hedgehog)