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Originally Posted by Airehead - but all the same, I wish they could be wiped out. |
a few years ago some animal rights folk released a load of mink just up the road from where i was working ast the time - they (the mink) came onto the reserve like a river about 10 abreast and seeminly never ending. As we had a lot of ground nesting birds this could have been disasterous - three of us stood on top of the hides with two shotguns and a rifle and blasted away for nearly an hour, it sounded like anzio all over again. when the "battle" was over the body count was upwards of 200 mink
Not a nice day but it had to be done - I just wish people would think about the consequences before releasing species like that into ecosystems where they don't belong.