Dear FML, I saw a real wild mink (?) when I was fishing this weekend. My brother rented a cabin up near International Falls, MN and invited me to come up for a little stress relief. One evening I was sitting out at the end of a very long dock fishing (because I didn't want to waste some bait we'd brought in from a boat fishing trip). As I sat there watching the last of the sunset, and waiting for a fish to bite I saw the cutest little critter come up out of the water and onto the dock. The people around this lake had been warning us to secure our bait buckets because there was a bait stealing mink in the area. This critter came up on the dock and ran along the dock stopping at each post and looking down into the water. It rolled, and rubbed itself on the dock in a very ferret-like fashion. It was dark brown, all over, and about the size of a medium sized ferret. After running the length of the dock it dove into the water and swam off into the reeds. I am guessing it was a mink. I don't know much about mink, but it looked sooo like a ferret. Made me miss mine all over again. My brother's ferret is a refugee at my apartment for awhile, he's been keeping her in spite of a rule against ferrets where he lives. Since he's been after maintenance to make some repairs to his apartment he has his little ferret here until the repairs are made so that he won't get caught with her. She is my little methadone fix, since my ferrets are gone now, and I am missing them very much. Just thought I'd send this. Don't know why I did, but hey, here it is. Dawn [Posted in FML issue 2783]