[LMB] (chat) mink!

[CatMtn at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/11/2007 6:44:27 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
redlion at sff.net writes:

>    On my walk this afternoon around Bredesen Park, a  wetland
> about half a mile west of my house and well within the  city,
> I saw a wild mink up close.  Cute, ferret-y face, lovely  dark
> cinnamon brown color; we stared at each other for a  minute,
> both holding very still, till I tried to move closer,  then
> s/he vanished into the cattail wrack.

>     Minneapolis.  What I love best about this city is that it's
> so  much like the *country*.


M:
 
When we moved into our house in Akron, it had been vacant for some  months.  
We were cleaning it in preparation for moving in, and found a very  recently 
dead mink in one of the basement window wells.  Both of us  felt so bad about 
it--wondering if we'd have been able to save it if we'd just  gone through the 
basement first, and all the other futile regrets.  We  lived there for nearly 
20 years, and never saw another.  We saw  raccoons and a fox, but no other 
mink.
 
Mary



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