The ALF in the UK are quite happy to let Mink loose 6000 at a time in Hampshire and seem not to mind that up to half of them are killed by cars and farmers before most the rest are caught. We have a feral mink population now which is killing a lot of the local wildlife along the river banks, including our feral ferrets. Chris. Christopher S Lloyd. Wessex Ferret Club http://web.ukonline.co.uk/superzoe/ Woolston D & F Club www.btinternet.com/~chris.lloyd2/ [Posted in FML issue 3655]