In Taggerung (one of the Redwall books), the Chief of the Juskarath tribe is named Sawney Rath (his last name, Rath, is where the tribe gets its name). He is a ferret and the surrogate father of Tagg (aka Deyna), the Taggerung (the Taggerung is like a great warrior-hero to the tribe). A stoat named Antigra killed him to let her son Gruven become the Chief.