The fur flies and crawls and bites:
He has killed 20 of them with a shotgun. Still, flesh-eating fugitives are skulking around Jeffrey Weaver’s place here in the deep green foothills of the Cascade Mountains.
THE ESCAPEES STINK to high heaven, but that is the least of Weaver’s complaints. They have slaughtered dozens of his ducks and chickens, feasted on fingerling salmon in his creek and had the temerity to bite his dog in the throat. One of them leaped out of the shadows and scratched his arm. “For the size of the animal, I have never seen such a killer,” said Weaver, 48, a laid-off Boeing worker who now works as a fishing guide. “They are brutal little guys.”
The fugitives are farmed-raised minks, running amok in the northern exurbs of Seattle, trying to figure out how to survive in an uncaged world. They are holdouts from a herd of 10,000 minks that on Aug. 25 was released from cages at the Roesler Brothers Fur Farm here in Sultan, a town of 4,100 people.
The Animal Liberation Front, which the FBI has said is responsible for more than 600 animal-related crimes in the past seven years, has claimed responsibility for the mink break.
He has killed 20 of them with a shotgun. Still, flesh-eating fugitives are skulking around Jeffrey Weaver’s place here in the deep green foothills of the Cascade Mountains.
THE ESCAPEES STINK to high heaven, but that is the least of Weaver’s complaints. They have slaughtered dozens of his ducks and chickens, feasted on fingerling salmon in his creek and had the temerity to bite his dog in the throat. One of them leaped out of the shadows and scratched his arm. “For the size of the animal, I have never seen such a killer,” said Weaver, 48, a laid-off Boeing worker who now works as a fishing guide. “They are brutal little guys.”
The fugitives are farmed-raised minks, running amok in the northern exurbs of Seattle, trying to figure out how to survive in an uncaged world. They are holdouts from a herd of 10,000 minks that on Aug. 25 was released from cages at the Roesler Brothers Fur Farm here in Sultan, a town of 4,100 people.
The Animal Liberation Front, which the FBI has said is responsible for more than 600 animal-related crimes in the past seven years, has claimed responsibility for the mink break.
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