Dear Lars From my experience, which is extremely limited, minks are basically the same as ferrets but you'll want to research this matter further. My Opa (grandpa) had minks when I was a little girl. He was a forester and had many animals that at that time were considered exotic and/or wild (snow owl, foxes, deer, porcupines and, etc.) which he rehabilitated for release or cared for if they were permanantly disabled. We used to play with them when we stayed with them and I was never bitten (hard) just nibbled. However, these minks had been hand reared by him from a very young age so I'm sure that the fact that he was the only mother they ever knew/remembered and they were VERY small when he got custody of them had A LOT to do with it. Good Luck! Sincerely, Irena...Lucy's mom [Posted in FML issue 1487]