Mink eat each other after animal rights break-in

AP via Star Tribune ^ | 10/03/2003 | Associated Press

[adam_az]

SULTAN, Wash. -- An animal rights group's plan to free 10,000 mink from a farm turned deadly after many of the emancipated mustelids became cannibals while others went on a carnivorous feeding frenzy. About 9,000 of the freed mink have been returned to Roesler Brothers Fur Farm since the Aug. 25 break-in, but keeping them alive has been a challenge. Normally, only siblings are caged together, but workers cannot readily determine which of the recaptured mink are related, said Kate Roesler.

``The mink are fine when they're litter mates together, but when they're not they're quite vicious and they're cannibals,'' Roesler said. ``They do eat each other, and that's what we're battling.''

[adam_az]

"Days after the break-in, starving mink attacked a menagerie of exotic birds, a flock of chickens and even a Labrador retriever."

Animal Rights Loonies Strike Again

[TADSLOS]

Too bad they didn't get their fill of PETA smorgasbord.

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[willieroe]

Are they conservative minks? (ducking...) :-)

[M1Tanker]

As usual, animal "right" fanactics kill more animals than they could ever save.

That's the problem when your sole source of animal behavior research comes from watching Bambi.

[TADSLOS]

Are they conservative minks? (ducking...)

Once freed from their cages, they became libertarians, which explains the cannabalism.

[xJones]

The Animal Liberation Front claimed responsibility and the FBI is investigating. No arrests have been reported.

In their self-righteous frenzy, those stupid idiots overlooked the fact that they didn't know mink behavior and let loose 10,000 minks anyway. The first charge that should be leveled against them is cruelty to animals, and show LOTS of color photos at the trial.

[Sabertooth]

((((((growl)))))

[willieroe]

Once freed from their cages, they became libertarians, which explains the cannabalism.

LOL.

[Diddle E. Squat]

There are so many jokes and innuendo in this story...

[SpinyNorman]

Another fine example of the rank ignorance of the animal rights crowd.

[dinasour]

Are they conservative minks?

They are Califonia Republicans

[LurkedLongEnough]

Now if only PETA could imitate the minks...

[MichiganConservative]

The next charge should be "terminal stupidity."

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Liberals. They are known to eat their young.

[Billthedrill]

Pity the perps got away - I live for a headline "Animal Rights Activists Eaten By Starving Mink." (Other than the one in the Weekly World News, that is...)

[dinasour]

Tastes like chicken

[Alouette]

One thing I don't understand. Why didn't the starving minks gobble up the stupid PETA freaks? Or are there some things that even mink won't eat?

[EggsAckley]

Another fine example of the rank ignorance of the animal rights crowd.

Not just ignorance. The "animals" are just a vehicle for these communist tools.

[bicycle thug]

Mustelids emancipated by weasels; that creates a situation that reaks worse then a skunk. There otter be something done about these gluttons for punishment ferreting out ways to do this sort of criminal stupidity..