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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“Farm-raised minks aren’t really able to make it in the wild.”
This isn’t the first mink murder escapade by the “compassionate” PETA types.
My grandpa had mink farm in a Minnesota. From the stories my dad told they were nasty creatures. Also had to be incredibly precise regarding the “social groupings” mentioned in the article.
When he retired from that the last of the mink all became coats :).
My Dad worked fancy furs in the NY Fur District for about 30 years. His father worked them before him.
Truth!
Interesting, who do you suppose the US and OUR..are??
My lovely mink stole I love dearly would agree.
Could really get deep here. Is that what you want?
Well, the baculum make really cool earrings. I’ve paid up to $25 dollars for 2 so I could make some; even necklaces would be nice. Maybe they’ll recover ‘em. Better than nothing.
What a coincidence!
So are the mink...
These same righteous animal rights activists and thieves will say
“BUT they die FREE, and not for their furs.”
So the death of > 40,000 animals won’t put a dent onto their souls, because they won’t acknowledge it.
WTF is that?
HAHAHAHAHAAHAH!!!!
Well, it’s a, it’s sort of a nice way of referring to a certain bone.
geesh....you can find TONS of those in Hilliary’s LOCK BOX!
LOL! Probably too small.
Well, when the live critter arrived at her home, she decided to "free" it. However, the nearest body of water was a fresh-water lake.
Yep, the lobster died.
You had to ask...
Proof that reading the first page of the book is cool.
Fur crying outloud...
LOL! Excellent!
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