well i'm not sure if you meant the furry one to be a ferret or a mongoose, because they look quite similar, however it does look more ferrettey in color/hair quantity. so, if this is supposed to be a ferret, it doesn't make as much sense because mongooses or mongeese or whatever their plural form is, are the ones who kill snakes, and would be moreso their enemy than ferrets. so. i'm not sure if you're the confused one, thinking it's ferrets that battle snakes, or that everyone else is the confused ones and you meant it to be a mongoose. i'd say, either try to make it more mongoosey looking and less ferrety or just set people straight.
also, mongoose/ferret issue aside, this is one of the best shirt's i've looked at thus far.
very cool concept, the style of illustration on the mongoose is awesome! and i immediately understood what it was meant to be . . . but it does look more like ferret to me than a mongoose and i think that if you smoothed out the illustation of the snake a little bit it would help to differentiate between the two. but great design and i give it a 5 if for nothing else, all the great work that you put into the illustration. well done!!!
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hand drawn at three times this resolution so please zoom in for details.