Pennsylvania authorities, state agencies and farm staff are currently scrambling to recover thousands of mink that have escaped from a local farm.
On Sunday morning, one or more wrongdoers broke into a mink farm in Rockefeller Township and cut holes in the fences surrounding the farm.They went on to release between 6,000 to 8,000 mink from their pens, reports the Pennsylvania State Police.“Just stay away. Don’t touch it, don’t try to trap it, and don’t try to catch it. They will bite you, and they can potentially hurt you”, residents have been advised.Mink are known as one of Pennsylvania’s most efficient predators, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission. Pets should not be left unleashed or unattended.The semi-aquatic members of the weasel family usually live on the edges of lakes, streams and rivers and are most active at night and in the early morning, though they sometimes venture out during the day, according to the commission, says CBS.The animals are “agile and fierce fighters” that kill prey with a “hard bite to the back of the skull,” the Pennsylvania Game Commission points out.
