"And where are they now? Back home sitting by the fire sipping a latte?" LOL!
I can account for a few of them. After the releases in 1997, the survivors went feral and bred like, well...mink! I've had them kill my chickens in the past, but not for a number of years since I upgraded the coop.
I'm sure there are a few hundred feral generations out there in the wild now, since 1997, though most probably starved to death as they were used to being fed on a schedule, or they were killed by hawks, or hit by cars.
As a small farmer myself, and coming from a farming family, IMHO, this guy is the ultimate @sshole. I see animal terrorism as no different than them coming onto anyone's property and destroying that person's livelyhood.
I work from home on my computer. What if someone came in and trashed it or stole it or corrupted it somehow? I see it as absolutely no different than how these animals rights pukes destroy anothers way of making a living.
Ditto from a fellow farmer's son.