I like how the poster called out all the mink "experts" before they started bitching. And, then one still got their feelings hurt and had to say something right off the bat. LOL. Insecurities.
Just to make a comment to some reading I have done here. Aggressive animals, no matter what kind, breed or species, are a result of people not understanding animals. If you see an aggressive mink, it has no good life. If you provide what the animal needs, activities, food and SPACE, it will not become aggressive. If someone here think they know all about minks and belive they are aggressive of nature - you are wrong, they are aggressive, as we would be, when locked up in small cages.
@shaxmitra yes I agree, Minks and otters(all mustelids) are extremely social and they are actually one of the fiercest if not THEE fiercest hunters pound for pound in the wild kingdom, however the paradox is- they are very easily tamed!
i have seen tamed otter and wolves and they are as gentle as any cat or dog. But you always have to remember they are still wild animals. I really enjoyed your vid thanks!
that is a beautiful animal yu have there and it has incredably greta balance yu have raised him/her good yu are a wonderful person..at leats we knwo its ina good home:)
My evidence is acquired traits. Please, prove me wrong by showing me how acquired traits will work in breeding non-aggressive mink. You know...i would be smart to not argue with a lawyer about laws, argue with president about politics, argue with dentist about my teeth, argue with a businessman about business, farmers about farming, doctor about my health,or argue with you about killing minks. And maybe you shouldn't be arguing w/ someone who has a bachelor's degree in genetics about genetics.
@shaxmitra Yes as a matter of fact I HAVE raised minks, provided shelter and done work on the subject. My grandparents used to have a mink farm which I also helped them in, so I know a lot about minks.
@VonTavast no...not all of them are aggressive. Some of them make good pets. And it's not like they have a chance to be aggressive...people with no heart put them in a small cage that they can't move and break their necks for fur anyways...
@ix3MyLove For some of them to ''make good pets'' they're gonna have to be bred for it. In other words they would have to be an offspring of older generations of minks that had been tamed. Again a normal mink does have the instinct to be aggressive, it's their nature. But of course, there are always exceptions.
@VonTavast erhh characteristics acquired during their lifetime don't pass on to the 2nd generation. And of course normal minks would be aggressive, you fur farming people/helpers just put them in small cages that they can't even take a few step, give them some shty food that they have to eat or else they'll be starved, and kill them at the end. Talking about minks...even i would be aggressive if that happens to me or my friends.
@ix3MyLove Yes but see you're human. You're much smarter than a mink (I hope) which also means you got more feelings and so on, of course you would go mentally ill. I never said the 2nd generation, I said generations. Which means that the mink would probably had 3 - 5 generations before him which also got tamed. There have been experiments such like this - and not only on minks, on other animals too and all showing the same result as I said.
@VonTavast LOL "you hope" i'm smarter than mink, and i hope you're smart enough to know that their behavior is based on their environment, they don't get it from their past generation. If you tame the parents, their behavior is not gonna be in their DNA to pass it on, same goes for future generation. If you tame like 10 generations of mink and put the next one in a freaking fur farm, they would still be aggressive. So obviously generation doesn't have anything to do with this.
@VonTavast You don't recognize the counterargument and then use scientific evidence to back up your point of view. I think they teach you how to win a debate and argument in some class call AP English 3 which you take when you're in HIGH SCHOOL!! Really...try to sound more professional and educated and use evidence. You sounds like someone who just speaks what he sees and from experience without knowing the scientific facts about genetics, something they teach you in medical school =]
@ix3MyLove Again you are drawing lines without knowing. I told you in the beginning that I trust this because there have been researches about it. Tell you what, why don't you try to prove me wrong? Yes I actually got more proof than you got right now, you've proved zero in this whole argument and I'd be glad to agree with you if you can prove the whole research wrong. Don't bother to come with some brain damaged reply if you don't got evidence cos I'm not going to be answering.
@VonTavast Ok guys VonTavast msged me and whined about how I made it look like he lost the argument. I just want to say that he won and everything he said is right because he worked in a fur farm, I was wrong because I went through 5 years of studying (exclude high school), and that my professor in University of Davis is wrong, the whole University, one of the top school for pre-med/pre-vet is wrong and HE is right. Thanks! Just had say that so some dude can stop bothering me.
@ix3MyLove Oh so you're back now all of a sudden? For the record I never whined about anything, I sent you a video of a documentary, and that's where YOU started whining about that the study I'm talking about is completely wrong and that everything your school contains is true, not even looking into the video. I never said your proffessor was wrong either, more than half of what you just said is bull. Nice try on making me look bad though, but it won't be enough.
@ix3MyLove Shitty food? Minks eat anything. Seems like you've been brainwashed by the nature-lovers. But of course, what would you know? You've never worked with minks anyway.
@VonTavast yea and human eat everything too. If you lock someone in a cage and the only food choice that person have is shty food, they would eat it anyways. And if they don't tell you if they like it or not, how would you know?? I've work with chinchillas, you know the aggressive animals that you people kill for fur...he was aggressive and bit my fingers until i bleed, but he stopped now. But how would you know, you never actually provide shelter for an animal and give them love...
@ix3MyLove Okay you ignorant fool, take a look at dogs for an example. They've been bred out of the wolf, and look how good they behave. They even did an experiment by raising wolves since they were little puppies the same way they raised their dogs, but still later on the wolf got aggressive for food and did it's own thing rather than listening to the trainer. How come? Since they're not BRED for IT like the DOGS. If it's someone who needs to learn biology, it's you. Now I'm done with you, bye.
@VonTavast without name calling please.. i'm just curious. mink have been farmed for a hundred years. these people have to handle breeding stock some how. they also have to handle them in order to slaughter.
and as far as wolves and dogs go.. certain breeds are more primitive than your average labrador. chows, huskies, and shiba inu to name a few.. prey driven, aloof, not very obedient... very close to their roots. but people still own them as pets while some people hate them for their traits.
@VonTavast i think if you knew what to expect with either a farm bred mink and a primitive dog breed you'd be better off than someone who thinks the mink is a ferret(same as someone who thinks a shiba is going to act like a collie)
i've had experience with wild dogs. wolfdogs, coydogs(hence my screen name here, i owned a dogote for 14 years) and i have dingo hybrid now. knowing what i've got helps aid in training and what to expect.
@VonTavast facts: dog is subspecies of wolves, so they don't have the same DNA stupid...you don't make 2 wolves fk and get a dog from them...humans came from monkey...you don't get a human from monkey breeding...erhh talk to me after you graduate from a medical school. thanks =]
@ix3MyLove No. Again, where does the dog originate from? The wolf. There's even proof that the early humans used wolves as pets and probably for hunting too. Dogs don't share the exactly same DNA as the wolves, but the DNA's of the two are very similar. Seems like you don't know much more than I do, you said humans came from the monkey, yet you're saying you don't get humans from monkeys. Oh really? We came from an older ancestor which the APES share with us, ''stupid''.
@ix3MyLove ''you don't make 2 wolves fk and get a dog from them'' wow, you really know how to make things sound incredibly stupid don't you? No of course I didn't mean it like that. I meant the dog has been with humans longer than any other animal, I'm talking about many thousands of years, would it really be that impossible for the wolf to adapt other forms and behavior on that time, thus becoming a dog?
@VonTavast again...if you go to a medical school and learn about genetics, you would understand the different between breeding and natual selection which recreated human. When i say "you don't get human from monkey" i mean breeding.Did i compare mink to hamster? nope. i compare mink to mink (which is the same species with similar DNA) And suddenly you digressed about wolves and dog.
The ones I had were born in the wild, and were starving when I found them. I had no intentions of making them to tamed, as the plan was to release them back into the wild when they were ready, and they were ready the next spring, so my experience is that the minks are to ferrets what the wolf is compared to a dog, more wild and more instinctive. But nice, intelligent little animals they where.
When I was in high school back in 1999 and doing a co-op at a pet store they let me hold baby ferrets and one of them suckled on my nose and it tickled.
@ bboyorc Let us talk about intelligence for a moment. Release this animal into the wild and observe how long it lives, and in how little time it would accumulate food and prepare adequate shelter. Now release you, video-less bboyorc, into the wild with no provisions or tools and see to what end your wits serve you.
Fishers would get huge, and something that can kill porcupines and crap their spines out unharmed are defintely able to throw down a good beating to a human. Who knows though, I know people who've kept wolverines and badgers as pets, but a long time ago...
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my chickens mean when minks get into them i am more worried about them than a fucking mink that serves no purpose besides being a fucking pest also chicken are living creatures to so why arnt you pissed at the minks when they kill them. Do i smell a hypocrite.
There are plenty of other creatures in the animal kingdom that kill another animal if it comes into their territory so its the same thing if somthing threatens another one of my posessions then its gonna die.
Im not mad at the mink because the minks a native species doing what hes supposed to do. Mink serves a bigger purpose than being a 'pest" keeps amphibian and small mammal populations controlled, helps with biodiversity and so on. Your another idiot farmer that claims to be worried about their animals but is just worried about money. Suck a cock bitch.
me and my brother just went fishin and saw a family of these things playing in the water, the would stay underwater and come up in a den that they lived in
I just got two American mink kits in today from someone who found them at the roadside also. How are your mink with other animals? I'm worried because I have lots of other rescues and when the mink grow I don't want them eating my other pets. :P
when they where pups they bitt me just a little bit, but not from aggression, just because they where at the moment a little afraid and not hard. Since then they have never ever bit me or anyone else visiting. They need some space and have the chance to run away if they dont like it, so thats what they do they run away if it dont like what you are doing or want to be alone.
They are GREAT swimmers, and for them to stay non aggressive they need this element to play with I think. They use the tub at least 20 times a day I think :) They dive and do acrobatics :)
I like how the poster called out all the mink "experts" before they started bitching. And, then one still got their feelings hurt and had to say something right off the bat. LOL. Insecurities.
chrsrumbaugh 1 month ago
cute. from what I remember, minks like water and live by it in the wild
KnittingPasta 5 months ago
вот шороху навёл
me93me93me 5 months ago
Like a mini otter. XD
shadoweon 10 months ago
Just to make a comment to some reading I have done here. Aggressive animals, no matter what kind, breed or species, are a result of people not understanding animals. If you see an aggressive mink, it has no good life. If you provide what the animal needs, activities, food and SPACE, it will not become aggressive. If someone here think they know all about minks and belive they are aggressive of nature - you are wrong, they are aggressive, as we would be, when locked up in small cages.
shaxmitra 1 year ago 2
@shaxmitra yes I agree, Minks and otters(all mustelids) are extremely social and they are actually one of the fiercest if not THEE fiercest hunters pound for pound in the wild kingdom, however the paradox is- they are very easily tamed!
i have seen tamed otter and wolves and they are as gentle as any cat or dog. But you always have to remember they are still wild animals. I really enjoyed your vid thanks!
porpoisefathom 1 year ago
@shaxmitra Wow, that is so cute! Just adorable!
lennyberry 1 year ago
@shaxmitra Wow, that is so cute! Just adorable!
lennyberry 1 year ago
that is a beautiful animal yu have there and it has incredably greta balance yu have raised him/her good yu are a wonderful person..at leats we knwo its ina good home:)
carlos76048 1 year ago
This is really cool! :D super cute too! I'd love to have a pet mink...
1PieceFreak 1 year ago
My evidence is acquired traits. Please, prove me wrong by showing me how acquired traits will work in breeding non-aggressive mink. You know...i would be smart to not argue with a lawyer about laws, argue with president about politics, argue with dentist about my teeth, argue with a businessman about business, farmers about farming, doctor about my health,or argue with you about killing minks. And maybe you shouldn't be arguing w/ someone who has a bachelor's degree in genetics about genetics.
ix3MyLove 1 year ago
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ix3MyLove 1 year ago
He's so cute =] you're very kind for taking care of him!
ix3MyLove 1 year ago
Damn..your camera work made me dizzy by the end!!
Funny little creature, though..
mattforrester1973 1 year ago
cool. where and how did you get it?
kalinga01 1 year ago
Minks are aggressive, no matter how they are raised.
VonTavast 1 year ago
@VonTavast :
So they are, are they? What makes you the expert? Have you raised minks, provided shelter or done any work on the subject?
No, I did not think so :)
shaxmitra 1 year ago 2
@shaxmitra Yes as a matter of fact I HAVE raised minks, provided shelter and done work on the subject. My grandparents used to have a mink farm which I also helped them in, so I know a lot about minks.
VonTavast 1 year ago
@VonTavast no...not all of them are aggressive. Some of them make good pets. And it's not like they have a chance to be aggressive...people with no heart put them in a small cage that they can't move and break their necks for fur anyways...
ix3MyLove 1 year ago
@ix3MyLove For some of them to ''make good pets'' they're gonna have to be bred for it. In other words they would have to be an offspring of older generations of minks that had been tamed. Again a normal mink does have the instinct to be aggressive, it's their nature. But of course, there are always exceptions.
VonTavast 1 year ago
@VonTavast erhh characteristics acquired during their lifetime don't pass on to the 2nd generation. And of course normal minks would be aggressive, you fur farming people/helpers just put them in small cages that they can't even take a few step, give them some shty food that they have to eat or else they'll be starved, and kill them at the end. Talking about minks...even i would be aggressive if that happens to me or my friends.
ix3MyLove 1 year ago
@ix3MyLove Yes but see you're human. You're much smarter than a mink (I hope) which also means you got more feelings and so on, of course you would go mentally ill. I never said the 2nd generation, I said generations. Which means that the mink would probably had 3 - 5 generations before him which also got tamed. There have been experiments such like this - and not only on minks, on other animals too and all showing the same result as I said.
VonTavast 1 year ago
@VonTavast LOL "you hope" i'm smarter than mink, and i hope you're smart enough to know that their behavior is based on their environment, they don't get it from their past generation. If you tame the parents, their behavior is not gonna be in their DNA to pass it on, same goes for future generation. If you tame like 10 generations of mink and put the next one in a freaking fur farm, they would still be aggressive. So obviously generation doesn't have anything to do with this.
ix3MyLove 1 year ago
@VonTavast You don't recognize the counterargument and then use scientific evidence to back up your point of view. I think they teach you how to win a debate and argument in some class call AP English 3 which you take when you're in HIGH SCHOOL!! Really...try to sound more professional and educated and use evidence. You sounds like someone who just speaks what he sees and from experience without knowing the scientific facts about genetics, something they teach you in medical school =]
ix3MyLove 1 year ago
@ix3MyLove Again you are drawing lines without knowing. I told you in the beginning that I trust this because there have been researches about it. Tell you what, why don't you try to prove me wrong? Yes I actually got more proof than you got right now, you've proved zero in this whole argument and I'd be glad to agree with you if you can prove the whole research wrong. Don't bother to come with some brain damaged reply if you don't got evidence cos I'm not going to be answering.
VonTavast 1 year ago
@VonTavast Ok guys VonTavast msged me and whined about how I made it look like he lost the argument. I just want to say that he won and everything he said is right because he worked in a fur farm, I was wrong because I went through 5 years of studying (exclude high school), and that my professor in University of Davis is wrong, the whole University, one of the top school for pre-med/pre-vet is wrong and HE is right. Thanks! Just had say that so some dude can stop bothering me.
ix3MyLove 1 year ago
@ix3MyLove Oh so you're back now all of a sudden? For the record I never whined about anything, I sent you a video of a documentary, and that's where YOU started whining about that the study I'm talking about is completely wrong and that everything your school contains is true, not even looking into the video. I never said your proffessor was wrong either, more than half of what you just said is bull. Nice try on making me look bad though, but it won't be enough.
VonTavast 1 year ago
@ix3MyLove Shitty food? Minks eat anything. Seems like you've been brainwashed by the nature-lovers. But of course, what would you know? You've never worked with minks anyway.
VonTavast 1 year ago
@VonTavast yea and human eat everything too. If you lock someone in a cage and the only food choice that person have is shty food, they would eat it anyways. And if they don't tell you if they like it or not, how would you know?? I've work with chinchillas, you know the aggressive animals that you people kill for fur...he was aggressive and bit my fingers until i bleed, but he stopped now. But how would you know, you never actually provide shelter for an animal and give them love...
ix3MyLove 1 year ago
@ix3MyLove You know what? Fuck off. If you can prove it, I'd be glad to agree with you.
VonTavast 1 year ago
@VonTavast go learn some biology, especially something call "acquired traits". This is why people should go to school instead of fur farming...
ix3MyLove 1 year ago
@ix3MyLove Okay you ignorant fool, take a look at dogs for an example. They've been bred out of the wolf, and look how good they behave. They even did an experiment by raising wolves since they were little puppies the same way they raised their dogs, but still later on the wolf got aggressive for food and did it's own thing rather than listening to the trainer. How come? Since they're not BRED for IT like the DOGS. If it's someone who needs to learn biology, it's you. Now I'm done with you, bye.
VonTavast 1 year ago
@VonTavast without name calling please.. i'm just curious. mink have been farmed for a hundred years. these people have to handle breeding stock some how. they also have to handle them in order to slaughter.
and as far as wolves and dogs go.. certain breeds are more primitive than your average labrador. chows, huskies, and shiba inu to name a few.. prey driven, aloof, not very obedient... very close to their roots. but people still own them as pets while some people hate them for their traits.
Dogote82 1 year ago
@VonTavast i think if you knew what to expect with either a farm bred mink and a primitive dog breed you'd be better off than someone who thinks the mink is a ferret(same as someone who thinks a shiba is going to act like a collie)
i've had experience with wild dogs. wolfdogs, coydogs(hence my screen name here, i owned a dogote for 14 years) and i have dingo hybrid now. knowing what i've got helps aid in training and what to expect.
Dogote82 1 year ago
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@Dogote82 And why are you telling me this?
VonTavast 1 year ago
@VonTavast facts: dog is subspecies of wolves, so they don't have the same DNA stupid...you don't make 2 wolves fk and get a dog from them...humans came from monkey...you don't get a human from monkey breeding...erhh talk to me after you graduate from a medical school. thanks =]
ix3MyLove 1 year ago
@ix3MyLove No. Again, where does the dog originate from? The wolf. There's even proof that the early humans used wolves as pets and probably for hunting too. Dogs don't share the exactly same DNA as the wolves, but the DNA's of the two are very similar. Seems like you don't know much more than I do, you said humans came from the monkey, yet you're saying you don't get humans from monkeys. Oh really? We came from an older ancestor which the APES share with us, ''stupid''.
VonTavast 1 year ago
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@ix3MyLove ''you don't make 2 wolves fk and get a dog from them'' wow, you really know how to make things sound incredibly stupid don't you? No of course I didn't mean it like that. I meant the dog has been with humans longer than any other animal, I'm talking about many thousands of years, would it really be that impossible for the wolf to adapt other forms and behavior on that time, thus becoming a dog?
VonTavast 1 year ago
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@VonTavast again...if you go to a medical school and learn about genetics, you would understand the different between breeding and natual selection which recreated human. When i say "you don't get human from monkey" i mean breeding.Did i compare mink to hamster? nope. i compare mink to mink (which is the same species with similar DNA) And suddenly you digressed about wolves and dog.
ix3MyLove 1 year ago
Thing looks like it's having a blast haha
87lancerguy 1 year ago
arent they just like owning ferrets
?
nguydenshow 1 year ago
@nguydenshow :
The ones I had were born in the wild, and were starving when I found them. I had no intentions of making them to tamed, as the plan was to release them back into the wild when they were ready, and they were ready the next spring, so my experience is that the minks are to ferrets what the wolf is compared to a dog, more wild and more instinctive. But nice, intelligent little animals they where.
shaxmitra 1 year ago 2
@nguydenshow no they are wild animals and should stay that wai
anarchymoo 3 months ago
When I was in high school back in 1999 and doing a co-op at a pet store they let me hold baby ferrets and one of them suckled on my nose and it tickled.
I wonder what they are doing right now.
narukofan2 1 year ago
lmfao what a moron who wants to watch that can u even eat it
bboyorc 1 year ago
@bboyorc :
You watched it...so you must be the moron :)
shaxmitra 1 year ago 8
Damn. Now I really want a pet mink. My rat hates to swim.
FlamingBat 1 year ago
@ bboyorc Let us talk about intelligence for a moment. Release this animal into the wild and observe how long it lives, and in how little time it would accumulate food and prepare adequate shelter. Now release you, video-less bboyorc, into the wild with no provisions or tools and see to what end your wits serve you.
ThatSatyr 1 year ago
are they pets?! i was wondering this - where did you get him/her? he is adorable!
PeanutSauce75 1 year ago
cute! so cute its all swimmy. lol i want one!
ccturtle22 2 years ago
Cute mink! I want a pet mink!
FancyShawl99 2 years ago
if someone knows where to get one please let me know
deathisaparter at yahoo
clownytheclownster 2 years ago
Mink farms and some pet stores.
SlyClay117 2 years ago
too cute! looks like a cross b/w a sea otter & ferret.
sinnylicious 3 years ago
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bboyorc 3 years ago
yeah, and maybe for you to.. lol
Theese are very developed animals, actually they are very intelligent, more intelligent than for example a dog.
shaxmitra 3 years ago
@bboyorc this animal is probalbly 10x smarter then u asshole how could you say it has a peabrain whats that leave you with? a peice of lint?
TheMetalg00se 1 year ago
I live in Louisville. Is it legal to have a pet mink there? How can I find out?
BluegrassLoverLou 3 years ago
yahoo groups: PetMink
shaxmitra 3 years ago
what about fishers?
that what I really want! I saw some pet martens on here as well...
kokumaru 2 years ago
Fishers would get huge, and something that can kill porcupines and crap their spines out unharmed are defintely able to throw down a good beating to a human. Who knows though, I know people who've kept wolverines and badgers as pets, but a long time ago...
SlyClay117 2 years ago
this is ironic i was crawdad fishing im my pasture and i killed one of these because it came over and started eating my chicken gizzards
lodlush75 3 years ago
And is your freaking chickens more important than a live? Fucking freak!!! I agree with Shaxmitra...
notis23 2 years ago
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my chickens mean when minks get into them i am more worried about them than a fucking mink that serves no purpose besides being a fucking pest also chicken are living creatures to so why arnt you pissed at the minks when they kill them. Do i smell a hypocrite.
lodlush75 2 years ago
The minks killing chickens for food is normal and its a part of nature for its survival, not like u killing it...
notis23 2 years ago 2
There are plenty of other creatures in the animal kingdom that kill another animal if it comes into their territory so its the same thing if somthing threatens another one of my posessions then its gonna die.
lodlush75 2 years ago
Im not mad at the mink because the minks a native species doing what hes supposed to do. Mink serves a bigger purpose than being a 'pest" keeps amphibian and small mammal populations controlled, helps with biodiversity and so on. Your another idiot farmer that claims to be worried about their animals but is just worried about money. Suck a cock bitch.
lamecow21 2 years ago
me and my brother just went fishin and saw a family of these things playing in the water, the would stay underwater and come up in a den that they lived in
RascalSamo 3 years ago
I just got two American mink kits in today from someone who found them at the roadside also. How are your mink with other animals? I'm worried because I have lots of other rescues and when the mink grow I don't want them eating my other pets. :P
Tigersmind87 3 years ago
How cute! I want one... I think. Has it ever bit you? Are they friendly pets?
ivy18241 3 years ago
when they where pups they bitt me just a little bit, but not from aggression, just because they where at the moment a little afraid and not hard. Since then they have never ever bit me or anyone else visiting. They need some space and have the chance to run away if they dont like it, so thats what they do they run away if it dont like what you are doing or want to be alone.
shaxmitra 3 years ago
How cute! I want one... I think. Has it ever bit you? Are they friendly pets?
ivy18241 3 years ago
Like a mini - otter!
meldidnot 3 years ago
They are GREAT swimmers, and for them to stay non aggressive they need this element to play with I think. They use the tub at least 20 times a day I think :) They dive and do acrobatics :)
shaxmitra 3 years ago
I like them!looks like lots of fun!
meldidnot 3 years ago
awesome! I want one, where can you get one?
nlee485 4 years ago
From a mink farm i guess, but I got mine from the roadside starving..
shaxmitra 4 years ago
Cute
janbaer1 4 years ago
All minks should have a tub like that:)
LindaHM 4 years ago