Mink meat also frequently gets used as mink food. Once the pelt is removed, there's quite a lot of mink left over. The fat goes to processors for oil and the rest is ground up, cooked, and served to the other mink or is sold to processors who make that pet feed.
And, yes, mink really are nasty, vile-smelling, foul-tempered, evil carnivorous weasels that don't seem to have any problem with cannibalism. They'll eat each other; each other's young; their own young; carrion, birds, cats, small dogs, maybe even slow PeTA or ELF members.
And those are domesticated (?) farm-raised mink during the mating season, when they're in love. Wild ones are considered to have bad attitudes. especially if lacking mates.
I live within 10 km of the oldest continuously-operating mink farm in the US and have visited it frequently to repair the owner's mobility devices.
1600+ evil, mean, stanky, skanky weasels, all dreaming of escape and taking over the world! (Well, whenever they're not working on killing each other before, during, and after mating, that is.)
Pitr! Oh, Pitr! I have some minions for you! |
