Posted on 07/21/2017 2:56:24 PM PDT by pabianice
Between 30,000 and 40,000 farm-raised minks were released into the wild near Eden Valley, Minnesota, earlier this week when burglars—presumably animal rights activists—cut the fence to a mink-pelt farm and opened the cages holding the mammals, letting them run into the wild.
Minks are strange little creatures somewhere between otters and ferrets, and when they run, their front halves and back halves teeter independently like two people pretending to be one horse. While the idea of tens of thousands of minks flopping through a pasture is quite amusing, the minks’ liberation likely came at a price: Farm-raised minks aren’t really able to make it in the wild. Many of the minks died once released because of the heat. The ones that were recovered alive were haphazardly thrown into pens, which disrupted their social groupings and drove the minks to kill one another.
Farm-raised minks aren’t really able to make it in the wild.
The minks currently live on a mink-pelt farm, which means that they essentially exist to eventually be killed. But still, the move to liberate them is destined to fail. Dan Lang, owner of the Minnesota farm the minks escaped from, told the St. Cloud Times that he estimates half of his minks are already dead. “I wish these people that did this would come here every day for two weeks, and they could help pick up the dead ones,” he told the Times. Lang has already started rounding up the dead. In piles, they look like logs of wood during different stages of charring.
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Where’s the FBI to investigate an act of ecoterrorism?
My understanding is they are too stupid to be able to survive on their own.
Sounds like my brother in law.
[ My understanding is they are too stupid to be able to survive on their own. ]
The Minks, the Idiots who freed them or BOTH?
BOTH!
Felony idiocy.
Imbeciles with no brain and perverted emotions believe umans are no better than rats and mice. They are correct. They are no better than rats and mice. They are incapable of understanding that many humans are vastly superior to them and make it possible for them to survive. We need reeducation camps and interventions to bring these deluded children into reality.
If God didn’t want people to have fur coats he wouldn’t have created minks.
No, if God didn’t want people to have fur coats, he would have made animals without fur.
Wow. Worth $750,000.
( Dominion: [dəˈminyən] NOUN sovereignty; control.
Doesn’t the ending scene of the novel “Gorky Park” involve a freeing of the minks?
I believe ALF or PeTA did this very same thing a few years back, with a similarly disastrous result.
But virtue-signaling is its own greatest reward.
My wife’s grandfather had a mink farm in Idaho. Years back after he died the libs let the minks all go. They died. No mink can withstand the roadways and winters of northern Idaho.
BINGO!!! Minks aren’t good for anything else!! My mink coat kept me from freezing for years!! It was my only coat, and it survived London and Detroit weather!!
Minks are predators. If they could make it in the wild that many would wreak havoc on the local wildlife.
Ask any Jewish person what “Let US make them in OUR image” means!!!! You will get Laughable answers!! I wish I could get Prager’s take on it at “ASK A JEW”!!!
This is not the first time these idiots released Mink into the wild.. It always ends up a disaster..
The minks or the ecotards who set them free?
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