Meet Poland's Most Destructive Beast!

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Of all of the animals that I thought I might meet over the years living in Poland, dealing with this particular critter has caused me the biggest headache so far. So, without further ado, it is my sincere pleasure to introduce you to the infamous "KUNA" or house marten/marten. Beware, beware :)
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[@szeryff0]

When being asked by Germans about polar bears and penguins in Poland, i never deny - "Yes, we do have all those animals, they roam the streets freely, some even let to be pet" :D Let them live in their delusions...

[@michalprzywalny8663]

Hey I ran into you while you were sitting down with someone this morning at a cafe in Czestochowa. Its my first time coming back in 19.5 years. I was born in Przemysl. It is good to see an American in Poland. I fell back in love woth this country.

[@LoveMyPoland]

Nice meeting you today 😎👍

[@worldcitizen181]

A polski jeszcze znasz?

[@LoveMyPoland]

@@worldcitizen181 Mówię po polsku, tak 👍

[@worldcitizen181]

@@LoveMyPoland Tak wiem Rusell, oglądam cię. Ja pisałem celowo po polsku do autora tego postu michalaprzywalnego bo pisze, że wraca do Polski po 19,5 roku.

[@LoveMyPoland]

AH, ok ok@@worldcitizen181

[@agata3958]

Awesome to watch another video from you! I suspected kuna from the beginning. I live in the suburbs of Poznań, close to forests, and they are big problem here. They make some crazy noises too. I was once outiside at night and they almost gave me a heart attack. It was a mother with her babies. I don't know if she was calling them to follow her or what but that was scary as fuck. Wild boars are common here too and once I almost got trampled by a deer lol. How are you doing? Are your boys healthy and happy? Please post more often! I love watching your videos!😊

[@adorinadorin]

30 years ago some Austrians visiting the company my wife used to work for glased thru the Warsaw's streets trying to spot a polar bear they "used to be pretty common in "wild" Poland"

[@worldcitizen181]

👍👍🤣🤣

[@ThinkInPolish]

Great to see you back Russel. I absolutely love your videos! When I meet you in Czestochowa, I'll give you a strong Polish handshake for promoting Poland so beautifully with your videos. Greetings from neighborhood :)

[@Matticitt]

Yup. So true. One ate the entire sound insulation in my engine bay, and another ate cables in my grandpas car. We also had one living in the roof insulation.

[@annafirnen4815]

Oh, so you got a taste of our furry rascals I see. When we had our old car which had bigger gaps underneath (it was easy for them to access the engine), my dad used a plank with nails slammed all over it and would put it under the front suspension overnight with the sharp ends up to scare kuny off. Now we have a different car that managed to fit in our small garage so no more damage. But few times we left the car outside, they tried to get to it too, but this time there was not enough space for them to pass through, so they decided to turn our car into a slide. I kid you not, you could see the muddy paw prints on the sides and big muddy slides on the front window 😂 And btw, we may not have penguins in Poland but you bet there are bears, wolves and moose and you can stumble upon them. It just depends where you live.

[@SuiGenerisAbbie]

🇵🇱 Russell, it is so nice to see you back. I wonder if you are OK, if we do not see your content or hear from you for awhile. Happy to see you are still vertical. 😊

[@LoveMyPoland]

My day job has been really occupying my time more than ever. I wish I had more time for making videos. It's a thrilling hobby :)

[@SuiGenerisAbbie]

Russell, please remind we all what is your day job. I am not sure I know exactly what you do for a good living, eh? Thanks, in advance! -- Abbie

[@LoveMyPoland]

@@SuiGenerisAbbie I run a business doing virtually everything with the English language. Proofreading, teaching, translations, the works 😃

[@SuiGenerisAbbie]

@@LoveMyPoland Where is your business's website, please? I want to read all about it.

[@ebarteldes]

The critter is so cute... who knew was so dangerous

[@SunglassSensei]

Oh cool. We have these in Japan, called 黄襟貂 ki•eri•ten (same as Polish pronunciation!) English: yellow throated/necked marten. 💛🤎

[@Pyrokan]

Honestly, as soon as I've seen the title I was thinking about martens :D Those buggers will always find a way into places where you don't want them to be and make a mess.

[@timgarner9875]

Great video, Russ!!

[@GdzieJestNemo]

i'm surprised - they must be a southern thing. Never seen or heard about in everyday life. They were just mentioned in elementary school as example of animal from Poland and that's it - had no idea they are active in urban zones. Wild boars have always been the biggest pest in cities/towns

[@Camel9991]

Nope. We have them in Pomorze as well.

[@GdzieJestNemo]

@@Camel9991 lived around 10 years in 3city and never even heard about them

[@Camel9991]

@@GdzieJestNemo few of the ppl I know got their car's wires destroyed in Gdańsk due to martens' acitivity. Same I've heard about Toruń.

[@kittkat2808]

In urban zones they do extremely well going "clubbing" every night from one garbage bin to another 😅. When I go out with my dog in the evening they are quite easy to spot underneath the cars. They are quite curious as well, so they rarely run away in panic. Rather change positions and observe the dog😅

[@Ivanos]

i really like your content! always had a softspot for eastern europe, and im from the netherlands.one day...one day il live in poland😍

[@emantsrifaukejiemanrus6387]

Living in Denmark i experienced, more than once, after telling im from poland: "north or south pole then?". In Danish the word for "the pole" and "Poland" is one and the same tho😂🤣😂🤣 maybe a Dane asked if there are penguins in Poland 😂🤣😂🤣

[@patrolowaty]

in 2017 in Wrocław during World Games one of those "eat" a wire from a great big iluminations, or some screens, and it was loud failure during this event:)

[@bee12117]

No dobra, ale łosie i niedźwiedzie to my mamy. I nie mówię o zoo.

[@ppm83wlkp]

@LoveMyPoland - the very first marten that visits the car does not destroy it. The first one is just there for several reasons, one of them is to find a nice and warm place to stay. That's why you can notice some pieces of food near the engine. The "destroyers" are the next martens. Why are they doing that? They want to destroy everything that "belongs" to their opponents (meaning - other martens). If that thing is destroyed you can be sure that you (or your car) was a host for more than one marten. Another thing is that the martens prefer to stay under the hood of newer cars. None of the older car that is in my family was ever touched by martens, but all the brand new ones were. I've never used such toilet bar like the one in your video, but just a simple solid Domestos toilet bar that does not smell like a forest etc. That works. Since I installed that under the hood of my car, my problems with martens disappeared.

[@LoveMyPoland]

Interesting info! Nobody else explained this to me, thank you!

[@RussellNelson]

Snow already?? We've had a few flurries here in the Southern Tier of NY, but that's it.

[@LoveMyPoland]

Getting hammered this week so far!

[@RussellNelson]

@@LoveMyPolandI can only imagine! We got a dusting last night, probably as much as you had when you did this video. Little enough that I could use a leaf blower to remove it.

[@dorotabarbowska2184]

I had my car hood lining damaged by them. Now we belong to the same community 😆

[@Pandzikizlasu80]

Kuna ate my car's antenna, also wipers multiple times, just being angry for anti-marten spray under my car's bonnet (or my dogs piss on wheels - probably more reliable solution) 😂

[@wonder5823]

2:58 You said: "rabies". This is what Google generated in the transcript: "raped babies". By the way, didn't you notice that more and more KZbin channels have appeared, where people wonder about Poland, how nice a place to live is here or just for a visit? 🙂Thanks for the video

[@LoveMyPoland]

Ha, really? Crazy! Yes, I've noticed. Poland is beautiful ❤️

[@MrX86PL]

Kostki do kibla pomagają, ale te najtańsze najbardziej śmierdzace i też nie zawsze. U mnie odpierały ataki w audi a4 przez 3 lata (na bieżąco wymieniane, średnio wisiało 3 do 5 kostek), ale sąsiadowi tiguana zjadały co kilka dni. Łapałem również do klatki i wywiozłem kilka, ale jest ich za dużo. Teraz zamierzam potestować siatkę pod samochód plus pastuch elektryczny. Pozdrawiam

[@rafaroszczyk6573]

Jak raz wejdzie pod maskę i zostawi tam swój zapach to potem inne też tam lezą, żeby zrobić to samo... Po takiej akcji trzeba umyć silnik albo spryskać czymś, co będzie mocniejsze w zapachu.

[@jabizziri]

No i sie zaczyna. Zaraz mnie jasna #!$%@? strzeli z tym pastuchem. Ty sam jesteś pastuch Pietrzykowski...

[@monikasturm2575]

Whoa that one picture looked like a furry snake. 😮

[@elfeintwentyfives1620]

so,,,,you met the suburban enemy and he was cute

[@mateuszcielas3362]

never seen such issu here in `the northern part

[@deltaZabrze]

All You got to do is put aluminium/plastic cover under the engine space. I mean car manufacturers ;) Wersja POLSKA : Wszystko, co musisz zrobić, to umieścić aluminiowo-plastikową osłonę pod komorą silnika. Mam na myśli producentów samochodów ;)

[@krsakil]

[...]and you know what to do. Read: don't get caught.

[@ebarteldes]

Are. you behind a green screen?

[@LoveMyPoland]

No, it's real 👍

[@mateuszwesoowski9583]

You absolutely get: bears, wolfs, elk, eagles, foxes, badgers, otters, lynx and even seals in Poland ("kaczka to maks"). Just not in towns and cities. The most dangerous animal you can meet in cities are wild boar mother with her young that sometimes visit cities with nearby forests. Quite common in Gdańsk for example.

[@LoveMyPoland]

I meant roaming the streets, my man

[@mateuszwesoowski9583]

@@LoveMyPoland Hence the sentence: "Just not in towns and cities. ".

[@zl8018]

@@LoveMyPoland kzbin.info/www/bejne/omjXnXV4eLpgnpo :)

[@marcindylowicz9775]

To be honest, the toilet bowl cleaners might be effective but the only option which is effective in 100% is, in my opinion, system that protects against martens which is based on ultrasounds. It's being installed on the engine. I had problems with martens in the past and after installation such system then my problems had gone.

[@mskiptr]

I hate that sound from the bottom of my heart. Standing anywhere near a car with this device installed is just painful! Wouldn't shielding the engine bay with something (like a metal plate) from underneath be way more effective anyway?

[@kor_di]

Oh shit 😂😂 Pozdro i XD with Kunas 😂 invest like 100-150 into electronic beeper that You plug-in to the car battery (Red to red, Black to black ofc) and it will help Your car Stay safe. And yup, replying to one of comments where someone stated it’s southern Poland case: true. More likely even south from Warta down to Austria. There also are problem with kunas.

[@akkudakkupl]

I have heard they like to eat tuna spiced with ethyleneglycol, though it was said in jokes.

[@kittkat2808]

In my car have some sort of device giving a high pitched sound when the engine is off. It uses almost no battery so it is safe and must be working well since I see kunas wandering the neighbourhood in the evening but no harm was done to my car. So far under my bonnet there were only found: a stale slice of bread, a bacon skin and a mummyfied rat. However the cables work fine💪

[@MrQuebe]

Na kunę... Jajko z trutką na szczóry inaczej się tego nie pozbędziesz!

[@tsubasahaneno]

This pesky little fellow once deprived us of internet for two days 😆 Turned out the internet cable was just a little too close to the top of one of the firs growing in our front yard and it got chewed up 😆 We had to replace a whole cable and cut the top of the tree so those critters won't be able to reach it again 😆 I never saw them with my own eyes though, always only the result of their shenanigans (yes, our cars got chewed up a few times too, but I feel like that is too common to even mention at this point 😅). From another bizzare stories, once we had our neighbours chicken lay an egg in our car (I have no idea how the egg got under the car's hood, but it somehow did) and since I was quite young then and words warten and chicken sound extremaly similar in polish (kuna and kura) I misheard my parents talking about it and was extremally confused how a mammal laid an egg in the car 😂😂😂

[@LoveMyPoland]

I'm so sorry 😂

[@smiechuwarte-qt8pn]

There is a theory for this. Car parts manufacturers use natural ingredients in their factories. It is for this reason that when a marten senses the smell of certain elements made of natural materials, it begins to bite individual elements, looking for food. There is also another explanation for this type of marten behavior. It has sweat glands on its paws. This means that when it prowls the car, it leaves a trace in the form of its smell. Other martens quickly sense this type of stimuli and when they find themselves under the hood of a car, the first thing they will do is to remove traces of another animal. They then start biting the wires and destroying all the elements that have the scent of another marten on them. This is the type of land marking that causes great harm to car owners.

[@tedzawistowski4731]

Wow, had not heard of this "beast'". In Texas, as you know....they would be shot dead. Thanks for the heads up!!!

[@LoveMyPoland]

😃🙏

[@ryannash4378]

I love you channel. And you were not wrong about that pop eyes chicken amazing 😋

[@WGal-er8bm]

Hi - great videos. But be warned the Raccoon is on its way to Poland. Escapees from German zoos are now breading wildly on the loose. The marten/kuna will be the least or your problems when the Raccoon arrives in Poland.

[@RussellNelson]

I failed to close my garage door in northern NY for a while. Raccoons moved in, found a way into the house in the space between our ceiling and roof, and made a nest. Not wanting to poop in their nest, they deposited feces in one of my toolboxes back in the garage. Ew. Yuck.

[@LoveMyPoland]

WOW! I had no idea :) I'll watch out!

[@d.c.v.6]

House marten- or ' Domowy Marcin' ;) in Polish

[@Zabijaka87]

People I know are using small pouches with dog's hair.

[@grzegorztlusciak]

Russell, there are bears and moose in Poland.

[@LoveMyPoland]

Not on streets walking around as some assume

[@RussellNelson]

@@LoveMyPolandWhen I lived in rural New Hampshire, I had a m00se walk up my driveway. Caught it on my security camera. All the houses there had at least 2A of land, so there was plenty of space between houses.

[@LoveMyPoland]

Incredible! :) @@RussellNelson

[@tomaszlech1432]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@pangroszek3498]

Woreczek (pończocha) z mieszanka sierści kota psa i koniecznie jakiegoś psa z tych z ras typu husky one pachną inaczej. Nawet niektóre psy np pasterskie na ich zapach szału dostają.

[@adamganski2012]

👍

[@jedrzej_k]

Od pięciu lat z tą ku(rw)ną walczę. Sąsiadowi też dach zniszczyła.

[@nastarkill]

Bags with dog hair works better

[@ebarteldes]

How is 7000 PLN 25000 US?

[@Pinzpilot101]

These nice litttle martens stay well away from my place.......7 Alsatians tend to scare them away. Worse for me....is.... Squirrels....I used to collect walnuts and we would eat them in the winter.....until I realised that walnuts along with other nuts are massively high fat energy foods as used by Special Forces and if you eat them and sit around (winter) you will put on weight! Squirrels were my enemy...Tree rats!!!...But now they are welcome to the walnuts.

[@jerryl6634]

"Marcin" (that's how I call it) is really harmful creature. Welcome among those who have been choosen.

[@MrX86PL]

I'm the chosen one. 3 years long battle and i'm losing....time, money and mind

[@sparkspl]

use dog hair, or dedicated "kuna" sprays, bowl cleaner...I don't think it will work

[@BlackFox-ps5jb]

I think that literally every animal should to be protected - I love animal by the way. But Russel... Let me tell You something. I had once a kitten. Her name was Kicia ( I bet that You know it is a popular name for female cats in Poland well )... And Kicia had a devilish nature a bit. She was chasing a dogs and she chased a house marten once too... Yeah, Kicia was a tough fighter.

[@GourangaPL]

zamiast takiej kostki do kibla weź szmatę, nasącz octem i połóż pod samochodem

[@d.c.v.6]

A kuna is a little zdradliwy skurwiel;/

[@Paciat]

Moja matka jest z domu Kunowska.