Sukie asked for more details. This is from The Oregonian 6/4/97. I have not seen any mention of ferrets in any news story about this raid. "The ranch reported 400 adult females and 2000 kits dead or missing [of about 10,000 total mink released]." This means about 75% of the mink survived long enough to be recaptured (the raid was on 4/30), counter to a recent FML post suggesting most of them died. Allegedly, the people who released the mink trampled some to death during the raid [I'm guessing just a few, and the industry people are playing this angle up]. The news story quotes an animal rights activist questioning the industry report of how many mink died: "They claim thousands of minks have died. Lets see thousands of bodies." [The guy who said this was from Texas, and I'm guessing he'd probably see plenty of bodies if he visited and was allowed onto the site.] Anything more, and I'm sure BIG's off-topic filter would dump this message into the bit bucket. Hope this answered your (ferret-related) questions. -- Kim [Posted in FML issue 1958]