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5000 mink escape in Donegal

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    Heard the owner ( I think ) on the radio today. When pushed,he put the figure at about 300, which he reckons will be taken by foxes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭Phill Ewinn


    Even 300 is a lot to absorb into a farming area. Some hope foxes will get them. :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    Even 300 is a lot to absorb into a farming area. Some hope foxes will get them. :rolleyes:

    They will make Glacier Minks out of them.

    Maybe if the farmers get a grant from Europe they will absorb them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭The Aussie


    Mink traps 35euro through the gun club or 50euro through most outdoor shops, a good way to exercise and take the dogs for a walk too, down side is you have to chain them to a tree, thieving tools will steal them...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    I'm no fan of fur farming, but whoever released thos mink cannot call themselves and animal lover, not with the amount of non-native animals they've released into the wilds.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 372 ✭✭poppyvalley


    Biggins wrote: »
    Good!

    you dont like fish?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    Where I come from, minks mean knackers.
    Lock yer doors Donegal.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭sligopark


    Tourism Bonanza

    Hunting folk with terriers travel from all over Europe to hunt mink in Donegal - B&B revival LOL


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    sligopark wrote: »
    Tourism Bonanza

    Hunting folk with terriers travel from all over Europe to hunt mink in Donegal - B&B revival LOL

    Surely Amnesty International have been informed.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,645 ✭✭✭Daemos


    My great grandaddy Sergei escape from prison camp and set up in terrible place in Ireland. To make living he start shop to compare minks.

    comparethemink.com. Simples.


  • Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭Smokin_Aces




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,305 ✭✭✭Chuchoter


    Cool story bro...

    This is where the '****ing dumb' button suggested as an anti thanks in the suggestions thread would come in handy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    "These people are animal liberation terrorists and had no thought for the mink or for the damage that will be done to other wildlife in the area," Anderson said.

    They may well do a lot of damage to wildlife but it's incredibly hypocritical for someone from a mink farm to pretend they actually care about animals. It's especially hypocritical to pretend to be concerned about the mink themselves.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    One of the farm's directors, Connie Anderson, blamed animal rights activists for invading the farm in the early hours of Sunday. He declined to explain why it took the farm so long to raise the public alarm.

    How can you raise the alarm ... Mrs Anderson ... when you cannot ... speak?

    http://www.rubinville.com/dailydave/uploaded_images/mr_anderson-715511.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    My sister had ten chickens killed by a mink a few months ago.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    Biggins wrote: »
    I'm glad they escaped but if they cause damage to the environment, that I would not be pleased to see.

    They are originally a creature from Russia aren't they? :confused:

    It's not a case of if, it's a case of "They will".

    If this was animal rights activists it largely proves my theory that animal rights activists can be complete ****ing morons.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭sligopark


    InTheTrees wrote: »
    My sister had ten chickens killed by a mink a few months ago.

    friend of mine also had all fifteen chickens killed by foxes and they were all left behind - whats that about?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭The Aussie


    If this was animal rights activists it largely proves my theory that animal rights activists can be complete ****ing morons.

    Its been said before that"The animal rights activists and/or extremist vegetarians will not be happy till the world is eating tofu"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭laugh


    A mink ate my baby. ****in enviroterrorists.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭The Aussie


    sligopark wrote: »
    friend of mine also had all fifteen chickens killed by foxes and they were all left behind - whats that about?

    A Mink kills not only for food but out of territorial instinct, some say for fun also but i've not seen any of this, so it certainly is not "Good`'


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭sligopark


    The Aussie wrote: »
    A Mink kills not only for food but out of territorial instinct, some say for fun also but i've not seen any of this, so it certainly is not "Good`'

    so will there be a licensed cull?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    The Aussie wrote: »
    A Mink kills not only for food but out of territorial instinct, some say for fun also but i've not seen any of this, so it certainly is not "Good`'

    Minks and weasels will drink the blood and leave the bodies.

    I didnt know foxes would do that though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭The Aussie


    sligopark wrote: »
    so will there be a licensed cull?

    Dont know, if eurpoe give a hand out maybe:D
    Buy a few traps and keep a few fish frames for them, cages are the main outlay.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Clearly in your rush to comment you by-passed rational thought.
    Well sometimes it might take one to know one. :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    sligopark wrote: »
    friend of mine also had all fifteen chickens killed by foxes and they were all left behind - whats that about?

    Weasels or Mink perhaps? Did someone who really knows identify what killed them?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭sligopark


    InTheTrees wrote: »
    Weasels or Mink perhaps? Did someone who really knows identify what killed them?

    yes - they came out to see a fox running off


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,213 ✭✭✭Mrmoe


    Rycn wrote: »
    If that many escaped, I doubt they'll make it through winter.

    The adults will have no hunting skills and the shortage of food will multiply the effects.

    No need to worry in my opinion.



    Let the chaos unfold.

    More than likely confusion :D

    http://adfos.com/collective-nouns.nsf/c/confusion-of-weasels


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    Has everyone just missed the worst pun in the history of mankind?
    Kasabian wrote: »
    They will make Glacier Minks out of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    sligopark wrote: »
    yes - they came out to see a fox running off

    pretty conclusive

    unless it was a really cunning weasel?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭sligopark


    Paparazzo wrote: »
    Has everyone just missed the worst pun in the history of mankind?

    does that mean like they'll turn gippo minks into TD wasters?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Fcuking tools.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭karlog


    Over 700 mink killed on roads. Well done you stupid tree huggers is this what you wanted!!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭sligopark


    karlog wrote: »
    Over 700 mink killed on roads.

    this is Donegal we're talking about - minks are the least of speeding teenagers worries ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Once these mink bastards are not marching on Dublin I couldn't give a toss tbh.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    The Aussie wrote: »
    Its been said before that"The animal rights activists and/or extremist vegetarians will not be happy till the world is eating tofu"

    Modern harvesting methods involved in tofu production result in huge numbers of the animals that live in Soy fields being killed by the harvesters.

    Also all tofu has trace elements of animal blood in it.

    Makes you chuckle really.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    karlog wrote: »
    Over 700 mink killed on roads. Well done you stupid tree huggers is this what you wanted!!!!

    Why blame the tree huggers? Blame the people who gave them their driving licences, everyone knows a mink cant reach the pedals.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭Grimreaper666


    Anyone interested in a nice coat? Just finishing off the stitching..........


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭sligopark


    InTheTrees wrote: »
    Blame the people who gave them their driving licences.

    can't refuse minks a license they need to travel around to steal rob and kill folk in Ireland


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,265 ✭✭✭SugarHigh


    Reminds me of a very old joke.

    Q How do girls get minks?
    A The same way minks get minks

    I'm a dumb ass and didn't get this joke. Does someone want to help?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,166 ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    sligopark wrote: »
    so will there be a licensed cull?

    Mink are an alien species, so there is no licence needed, just shoot/trap and kill. This is ecological vandalism in the name of "animal rights", I would love to see whoever did this identified and punished. Fucking idiots.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    Zzippy wrote: »
    Mink are an alien species, so there is no licence needed

    That would explain why they're dying on the roads then, You'd think aliens if they've made it all the way to planet earth from whereever they're from would have some basic car control skills though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭Ronin247


    SugarHigh wrote: »
    I'm a dumb ass and didn't get this joke. Does someone want to help?


    A/S/L??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭sligopark


    InTheTrees wrote: »
    That would explain why they're dying on the roads then, You'd think aliens if they've made it all the way to planet earth from whereever they're from would have some basic car control skills though.

    car control - most earth dwelling minks drive vans LOL


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Did they escape near Muff? ;-)

    Not the brighest thing to do by the sounds of it.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 751 ✭✭✭Daisy Steiner


    SugarHigh wrote: »
    I'm a dumb ass and didn't get this joke. Does someone want to help?


    By having sex?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,040 ✭✭✭yuloni


    This post has been deleted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    Condi wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    ALiens blend in with the locals and dont arouse so much suspicion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Awh what a lovely future they have: (from wiki: Many released minks, however, tend to die of exposure or from fighting one another)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,473 ✭✭✭R0ot


    Sigh not the first time this has happened. Way to go activists release a killer animal which will fcuk with the rest of the local animal population for years to come and some will no recover (salmon) :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Those animal farms are barbaric and should not be tolerated, but whoever released them are short sighted muppets. These mink will do untold damage to the local animal population, so well done - saps!


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