Scores of Freed Mink Feed on Farm Animals (Update)

AP ^ | Fri, Aug 29, 2003

[sauropod]

That's not Laurie Dhue is it?

Hoping...

[sauropod]

Invasive Species Ping.

[sauropod]

Howdy!

[cspackler]

No, No... PETA stands for..
People for
Eating
Tasty
Animals

At least for me, anyway.

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[PLMerite]

"ummm, if they are eating farm animals, they are not surviving "in the wild" you idiots."

Right. What they're doing is more like surviving "on the street." Attacking domesticated animals that don't have the instincts or freedom of maneuver that wild critters do.

[mommadooo3]

Yes, you do have a point. Guess that makes a good argument for having more than ONE farm doggie, eh? LOL!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Agree !

[Eva]

It sounds like a good time for a legalized mink hunt, just make sure to use a small caliber so that it wont ruing the pelt too badly.

[Who dat?]

Weaver, who breeds Indian Runner ducks and Banny chickens…

Heh. I guess it’s a regional thing… we had “banny” chickens. At least that’s the way we pronounced it. Meanwhile, they were Bantam chickens in real life. But maybe there is such a thing as a Banny chicken.

It’s sort of like how we used to call a Brahman bull a “bramer” (sounds like bray-mer) bull. I was probably 16 years old and was at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and saw a leaflet that had a picture of a Brahman bull. I thought “they’re high – that’s a bramer.” But later I realized that our family was probably single-handedly destroying the English language. Ha.

[KarlInOhio]

ummm, if they are eating farm animals, they are not surviving "in the wild" you idiots.

They were able to hunt, catch and kill the 50-pound bag of bird feed. Those bags are pretty cunning in the wild.

[mommadooo3]

Back atcha, dear FRiend!

I'll be finding time later, to send ya a FReep mail. LOL, I'm on 'stolen time' here, oldest daughter 'earned' 'puter time.

[Budge]

Your #10 --- I went to junior high school in Beaumont, Texas way back yonder right after WWII. We used to bicycle to the famous Spindletop oil fields and marvel at the wells that were so close together that often the derricks actually interlocked! Pools of oil were everywhere as were flaming gas jets.

While this photo is much older than when we went out there, it looked very much the same.

About ten years ago I took some young family members who wanted to see Spindletop out there.

I could not find it, per se! All that remained were a very few capped wells, several weed filled patches covering the still remaining pipelines, a marble monument marking the site and grazing cattle where once the tangled wooden derricks were.

A mighty big change just within 50 years!

Yet the environazis have convinced the spineless congresscritters that drilling in ANWR will destroy the entire earth!

[Eva]

Minks have a ten year life span, that's not exactly a temporay disruption.

[DuncanWaring]

Men rarely wear fur.

It makes a nice lining around the hood of my parka. I think it's wolf fur.

[RightWhale]

Animal activists argue that while the farm animals' deaths are unfortunate, it proves minks raised in captivity can survive in the wild.

This also proves that animal activists are primitive moral Utilitarians: their actions are rationally deficient and fallacious, thus they are acting immorally and have not yet begun to live like human beings.

[presidio9]

sort of like how we used to call a Brahman bull a “bramer” Is this what you're talking about?

[presidio9]

It makes a nice lining around the hood of my parka. I think it's wolf fur.

You, sir, are worse than Hitler.

[Budge]

I'll wager he voted for Nader.

Oh, a communist then, eh?

I think you're correct.

[presidio9]

Alas, no. BTW, Presidio works one block from Miss Dhue and has bought her beers out in bars.