Animal rights sorts
Those that break into research facilities and liberate the animals within, or free those to be used in the fur trade - like those who released thousands of mink into the wild years ago

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/148120.stm

These animals are bred in captivity, usually with all the instinctive aggression necessary for survival in the wild bred out of them, to make them easier to handle. As such they have no idea how to forage for food, territory, etc. This results in them either freezing or starving to death, attacking other animals in desperation, or being picked off by hungery mr barn owl within hours / days of being let loose.

Now, I don't care what your stance is on animal research / fur trade. Releasing captive bred animals into the wild is just plain cruel.
( no longer a user, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 15:27, 13 replies)

Trust me
The mink haven't had the ferocity bred out of them and they are perfectly adapted for living in the countryside.
The fucking greenies think they care about animals and by releasing mink, they have totally screwed up the ecosystem.
Mink are voracious killers and feed on anything from small mammals, waterbirds, eggs and fish. They'll even kill when they're not hungry and many of these prey species are in enough decline as it is.


Nice one tree-huggers!
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 15:43, closed)

sorry
true about the mink - I should have stated that really, but such as lab rats and guinea pigs etc that do have to be handled by the researchers - they are fucked. The loonies did over a lab in the states recently and the lab rats were mostly found mangled and frozen to death within yards of the facility
( no longer a user, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 15:55, closed)

The prospect is even more harrowing
after watching 28 Days Later last night.

They could release zombie guinea pigs.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 15:58, closed)

*squeak* *squeak* *twitches nose cutely*
*FFFUUUUCCCKKKIINNNGG RRROOOOAAARRRR*

*jumps, bites, Rages*
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 16:37, closed)

not to mention ridiculous in the extreme
releasing non native species into the wild is the single most destructive possible act a person can commit against their native ecosystem. forget about poor mr mink getting eaten by that naughty barn owl (implausible at best-mink would RAPE a barn owl) and think about the consequences of introducing a hardy, top predator into an already unstable ecosystem. fucks with waterfowl populations, smaller rodents, ie endangered water voles, dormice, nesting birds, you name it, they'll kill it. then there's the issue of introducing new diseases into native populations.. look at what the grey squirrels have done to the reds, look what rats did to flightless birds all over the pacific islands, look what damage bloody japanese knotweed did here. it's irresponsible, and if these scruffy tie-die wearing patchouli smelling fuckin do-gooders spent more time at school learning than sitting in a fuckin tree house planning the demise of 'the establishment maaaaaan' they'd know this.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 15:47, closed)

What if we got wild animals and released them into captivity?

( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 15:48, closed)

Er...
Profit?
( Cawl, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 15:50, closed)

sweet
who wants to join me on an expedition to this island I know about. Some crazy old bugger has been breeding dinosaurs....
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 16:24, closed)

Ok!
*wavy lines*


Clever girls...
*meaty tearing noises*
( Cawl, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 17:09, closed)

I remember a story...
...about Jimmy Somerville, Scottish falsetto-esque lead singer of Bronski beat and it seems, possessed of strong feeling on animal rights.

Oor Jimmy found himself in a restaurant which sported a tankful of lobster - the idea was you pick one and it promtly gets boiled alive and served up on a plate for you. Not my idea of fun, but Jimmy took major unbrage, bought the lot and released them all into the first stream he found... where they all died very quickly, as it was a freshwater stream. Yes Jimmy, it helps to actually know something about the creatures you purport to defend. Plonker.

There was another story I read about two seals that got caught in an oil slick in the states, but were rescued and painstakingly nursed back to health. Quite expensively too. There was a big ceremony when they were released where the onlookers got to watch them gambol in thier natural habitat for about ninety seconds before the pair of them were ripped to peices by a killer whale not far off the shore.
(thatblokeoverthere not quite as much an arsehole as I thought, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 16:54, closed)

I've heard the seal one before
I wonder if it's on film.......
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 16:59, closed)

Sea lyin'
www.snopes.com/humor/lists/fakenews.asp
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 1:06, closed)

Shame

(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 10:53, closed)