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| ’Liberated’ Minks Rounded Up |
| 2003-08-27 |
| More than 9,000 minks set free from a Sultan, Washington, fur farm by an animal liberation group this week were back in their pens but hundreds more were still roaming the nearby woods. Police and volunteers helped Roesler Brothers Fur Farm workers capture the foot-long critters, worth about $40 apiece, with nets, snares and their bare hands. "They’re not real tame -- they’ll bite if you pick them up," Sultan Police Chief Fred Wasler told Reuters. "I’ve never been around minks, so I’m far from an expert and I got bit a few times before I learned how to pick them up." Guess the qualifications for chief of police in Sultan don’t include common sense. Workers found holes cut in fences surrounding the farm and all of the cages opened, though thousands of the animals never ventured from their pens. Course not, they were born and raised in those pens, that’s all the home they know. Local news outlets received e-mails from the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), which has struck fur farms across the U.S. Northwest, claiming to have released the minks. Since ALF is considered a domestic terrorist group by law enforcement agencies, the FBI has been called in to help investigate, Wasler said. I’m sure they’ll get to ALF right after they catch ELF. In other words, don’t hold your breath. Critics say releasing domesticated minks is more inhumane than killing them for fur, arguing that the caged animals are ill-equipped to survive in the wild, even in the rich woodlands of western Washington. "They found four or five squashed on the highway," Wasler said. "A lot of them just milled around the open cages." Poor minks, I’d put the ALF members in a cage with a few dozen hungry mink and let the fun begin. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #7 Zsa Zsa's running for governor under her nom de guerre: Arianna Huffington |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-8-27 7:47:04 PM |
| #6 She is still actively consuming O2, .com. I recall reports of her having problems driving her car a year or two ago. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-8-27 6:37:13 PM |
| #5 ...Zsa Zsa Gabor - or is she dead? |
| Posted by: .com 2003-8-27 5:56:48 PM |
| #4 ..coyotes, eagles, dogs... |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-8-27 4:16:50 PM |
| #3 The chance of minks surviving on their own in Washington is not real good. The foxes, wolves, bobcats, bears, racoons... |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-8-27 4:08:35 PM |
| #2 I’m sure they’ll get to ALF right after they catch ELF. They already caught ALF. The problem is, a series finale was never made. ;) |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-8-27 3:38:27 PM |
| #1 FBI: "We're looking at a Steven Hatfill as a person of interest ...." |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-8-27 1:02:31 PM |