re: 4 parrots dead at Jackson Zoo, mink to blame

Hence the popular expression, "don't scruffle the mink"

Bingo…

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Its like a 2 pound waterproof grizzly bear crossed with a honey badger on meth.

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Had a couple buddies in college who grew up on large cattle ranches in BFE Ks. and they had a ferret dome that made the sands of the coliseum seem like child’s play. The weasel family are stone-cold natural borne killers, including those adorable playful otters that everyone is so fond of.

Had no idea Jackson Zoo was still open. My mom used to take us there all the time as kids back before Jackson went to shite. It was rougher area then It’s completely in the middle of the hood now.

I feel like I remember someone posting that guys videos before using the mink to flush out rats.

Also, I think my sinuses are fricked up after just watching all that dust getting kicked up in that barn lol

Nope. The Mayor did. Terminated the lease of the group who was running it for voting to study a new site.

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I'm not the kind of guy easily defeated by wildlife but a mink had claimed my boat and a bucket of minnows. I wasn't allowed to approach either without being screamed at and attacked. At one point I managed to kick him off the dock and he rebounded off the water like it was solid ground and bit through a heavy leather boot in the blink of an eye.

Mink are not to be trifled with.

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About 40 years ago my lab and I surprised a mink in a duck blind with only two ways in and out....through the opening at one end and over the top. We had walked into the area with a sizeable bag of decoys, gun, shells, and enough lunch to sustain a small family for a couple of days, so we weren't exactly being quite. I set the decoys and again, was not particularly stealthy while doing so. The dog was busy doing what dogs do and I did not notice her spending a good deal of time sniffing at the blind....I thought someone had probably dropped some food in it. When we went to bet into the blind the dog, a noted coward, hung back and allowed me to enter first....unusual as she would usually bowl me over to beat me into a blind. Again, did not pay any attention to this. I was in the blind completely and the dog as almost completely in when that mink made its presence known by making the most godawful hissing noise and leaping toward me but more toward the opening at the top of the blind. This was a subtle difference in direction that I failed to notice in the moment....I thought for sure that thing meant to jump in the general direction of my throat LOL. The dog, again a noted coward, had suddenly remembered she had business outside the blind and was making good her escape when the mink noticed her and leapt onto her back, leaving me along but causing the dog considerable consternation. They "fought" for what seemed like an hour and a half but was actually only about a second and a half. In that short period they did manage to completely destroy that end of the blind....I think the dog ran through it twice, for good measure, after the mink had disengaged completely. They had also scattered my blind bag and lunch.

I patched up the blind and checked the dog, she was uninjured....but that damned mink swam around in the decoys for about an hour before wondering off. The dog pretended like it wasn't there which I think pissed the mink off.....the dog and I never discussed this encounter, both of us no doubt ashamed of the others behavior toward what amounted to a 3 pound mouse in our duck blind (may have been the minks blind as it turned out).

Four murders in Jackson Zoo?

Must have been a slow week.

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If they weighed 30 pounds everything on earth would be extinct. A mink is a bad dude.

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Really? Wow. I guess I know nothing about them.

Except that they make great coats.

Well if they’re mean, I feel less guilty wearing them.