Yes when you get a clean shot, the death is quick and rather painless. You are clearly 90% emotion and 10% logic. Now this reminds me of my totally wild mink, and he is describing wild mink at a distance. A person could have hunted rabbits with ferrets all those years ago, and not allowed excessive suffering to the prey. Minks can bite through the thickest gloves, still causing bloody wounds. Browse for sale listings in California "The Golden State" - State Capital Sacramento View pictures. Before proceeding with this application please be aware of YOUR city, county and state laws regarding owning of a mink. Nature has no room for such sentiment. oh gosh what was that noise? My draft stock helps carry heavy loads when needed and provide fertilizer for my gardens. Whoever wrote this is basically saying wild animals should not be able to do wild animal things. Minks can be biters and most vets probably won't be comfortable treating them without sedation. My suggestion is, if you love having "cool exotic pets" that you stick with chinchillas, squirrels, and other herbivores, as you clearly don't understand one thing about predators. According to Joseph Carter, who is skilled and experienced with training minks (he obtains mink from fur farms and uses them to hunt other animals) it is possible to tame minks well enough to interact with them without gloves, but should you not have time to do this, you will be dealing with an animal that is prone to biting you, and this can require a hospital visit. It's that simple. I had fully intended to catch and eat an opossum that night, but when I got to the animal, and found that the dog hadn't bothered it because it had neither fought nor run, but instead laid still and "played possum". But giving them straight to my animals live is ANIMAL CRUELTY" -Melissa (probably). LIFE is cruel, it is unfair and when you play by Nature's rules ethics is at a bare minimum; more something that can be classified as cause and consequence. If you want to think about what you’d want as a person, I’d rather a wild animal kill me and use my meat to feed their cubs than to have a ragged saw go through my throat as I hang upside down for a long period of time with blood rushing to my head just so only my abdomen would be eaten. In this article you stated that. It is not the responsibility of SaveAFox Rescue to check your city, county, and state laws and codes regarding ownership of pet mink. I'm not a huge fan of him using a mink to hunt relatively large prey like muskrat and opossum as these are prey items that a wild mink might take infrequently and opportunistically involving a sick or trapped animal. Are they adapted as house pets (dogs, ferrets, hamsters)? I believe in gun shot to the right region or captive bolt gun, whichever methods are approved in the AVMA Guidelines for the Euthanasia of Animals that result in instant loss of consciousness. I would like to start off by saying that I really like how this article explains how very challenging mink are to keep as pets! Little girl, you have some serious internal conflicts going on in your head. Your "ethics" are beyond ridiculous, and you make absolutely no sense! As lawmakers are always quick to aid business owners that want to kill animals over those that want to care for them as pets, these legal loopholes might keep them legal unless you are required to be a licensed farmer. Males are larger than females, weighing 2–4 pounds and about 2 feet long including the tail. No, I just think we see things differently. I just happened to come across that yesterday. They do this with dogs too. You sound like you are pro-captivity but also feel minks are bad pets for most people and that's all I'm saying here. Is that a reason to rage about this article? Otherwise, domestication has a varied definition. The farm-raised mink that are pelted for fashion are domesticated. We are pushing her toward something a little more traditional, like a chinchilla or prairie dog but she is throwing a fit for a mink… My bat-detection abilities work just fine all the time, like now. Escaped animals are not thinking 'finally I'm FREE! Often times feed rodents are put into frezers live and are jusst left to freeze to death. How to identify The mink is a small, lithe mammal, with brown-black fur, a narrow snout, a small, white chin and a white throat. Also don't know if you will see this, but Joseph Carter you are amazing & one of my personal heroes when it comes to animals. Most processed food that you may feed your pet was most likely as humane as letting your pet live hunt, because factory farming is usually just as cruel, if not crueler than the hunt. Actually, the whole idea of keeping pets from the start is unnatural for them so maybe it is you who shouldn't be keeping animals if you are against denying them of their 'nature'. Ferrets have no jaw power, no drive, they’ve been domesticated to be pets. The 5 seconds it takes for her to make a kill? Dogs and cats for Sale, Puppies for Sale. ', it's more like 'oh what's that over there? What matters are the traits inherent to the species. A lot of times snake will flat out refuse frozen prey, so should we just let it starve? My wild mink would probably lose most of her desire to live if I fed her dead mice. Melissa A Smith (author) from New York on July 21, 2019: Ok i just want to know if i can own. You have created a "safe zone" based on what you think is right or wrong, hoping to change an animals natural instincts to fit within your views thus caging the animals even more so than the farms that Joseph saved his Minks from. Without water any mink is quietly in agony I can promise you of this. Whether or not your mink remains tame will depend on the age of the animal, your persistence, and the animal's individual personality. Who can I buy a mink or. Most of your replies to what other people say that you disagree with is unprofessional and will definitely impact your “reliability”. Melissa A Smith (author) from New York on June 19, 2015: You're perfectly welcome to kill your own prey HUMANELY. Minks are not 'electrocuted' rectally like foxes and other animals to kill for their pelts. In addition, you should also check regulations in your county, city, and (if applicable) HOA. I'm not 'against' predators, how could I be? Raw diets designed at the whim of a non-certified veterinary nutritionist are more likely to be deficient in nutrients. This taxidermy of a least weasel attacking a rabbit provides a visual of how minks kill large animals. "I take testimonials from experienced owners (in this case, it was you + peer-reviewed articles about farmed mink) and present it to a wider audience, and I'm pretty good at it, having a good understanding of animals in general.". If you think live mice don't carry disease, you are very, very, wrong. If anything is cruel, forcing a wild predator to eat nothing but highly processed fake foods, and locking them inside for their entire lives, not allowing then to do anything natural, THAT is true cruelty. Its not on the same level at all. Letting an animal suffer it's ENTIRE LIFE just so it can be killed "quickly and humanly" by someone else, then chopped up and prepared for you, so you can self-righteously wipe your hands of the death of the animal, and feed it to your pet feeling all good about your self, because you never had to see or take part in the dirty work of preparing it. I'm not up for a larger philosophical debate about whether or not people should have morals. Why then do you feel it is more "humane" to force them to live an entirely unnatural life eating dead stuff, and being locked in a house like a prisoner? I love nature. To me for it to be sporting the prey must have a more fair chance at escaping.". Mink are semi-aquatic and require a … That statement is extremely misleading and down right offensive to me. Therefore, as one might expect, a cage should be suitably-sized, although not even a spacious cage will offset all the energy of an animal adapted as a high energy hunter. It is all so very strange to me, you sound like you are a caring person, but some of those videos seem callous. This is why we won't see eye to eye. I have mink, champagne, black, hooded of various … Not once did I say we shouldn't kill, but that we should use the most efficient, quickest methods. As for your statements on the dispatching methods, I do not support 'halal slaughter' (throat cutting). Like bulls, they are domesticated, but are potentially dangerous. Their incessant pacing might be indicative of stress and inability to satiate their drive. All animals under my care are partners. You are a skilled trainer. They re land animals a firm second. Minks closely resemble ferrets which are domesticated versions of polecats. I would argue it's inhumane not to, but I am sure that is absurdly naive to you. 5 are 3 years old and a 6mo old baby glider. In return a these animals receive a much more stable source of food, water, medical care and sanctuary.