Two things that have to be taken into account: 1. They tend to die when released, not knowing how to care for themselves 2. There are increased rates of some species specific diseases in farm mink which pose a real threat to wild population of mink, and the wild populations in some areas are very small with very important genetic components. So, releasing farm mink carries the risk of destroying natural populations of wild mink. Sukie (not a vet) Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html [Posted in FML 6104]
