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By Tomas Alex Tizon Times Staff Writer August 31, 2003 SULTAN, Wash. ? For a few days, the roads were paved with mink. Dead ones mostly. They were mangled by dogs, withered by summer heat and run over by cars and trucks. Their carcasses were reduced to tufts of blue hair on the pavement. In the early morning darkness on Monday, in what residents call an act of eco-terrorism, animal activists released 10,000 Blue Iris minks from the Roesler Bros. Fur Farm in this former logging town east of Everett. The animals spread like a flash flood. "They were everywhere. They covered the road, they were all up in the brush," said Sultan Police Chief Fred Walser. For a time, there were more than three roaming minks for every resident of this town of 3,000. Minks by the hundreds were captured by neighbors and friends and returned to the farm. By the end of the week, there were still as many as 2,500 loose animals, and they were, one local said, creating havoc. The hungry animals invaded chicken coops, raided fish ponds, stole pet cats and ducks and ate salmon fry in streams and rivers. Some feared the local ecosystem would be thrown off by so many new predators in the area. http://indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display_any/11188/index.php

"For a few days, the roads were paved with mink. Dead ones mostly. They were mangled by dogs, withered by summer heat and run over by cars and trucks."

Sounds exactly what I thought would happen when I heard this article.

People with house pets pets they no longer want abandon then on roadsides in the country suffer the same fate.

Animals in the wild are taught by their parents how and what to hunt and eat.

You drop off such an untrained animal and you see the results.

It ain't Walt Disney's Freedom of the Wild but a slow death by hunger,the weather or lying wounded by traffic on the side of the road.

"Some feared the local ecosystem would be thrown off by so many new predators in the area."

Pretty ironic, isn't it? This just proves what idiots they are...never THINKING beyond 'Step One' of any plan. *Rolleyes*

Welcome to FR, BTW! :)