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Environmental Group Releases 10,000 Minks

Aired September 01, 2003 - 14:47   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: From our no good deed goes unpunished file comes this story out of Washington State. Take 10,000 adorable live minks, destined to be killed for their luxuriant fur, and add a group of animal rights activists determined to give the mink a fighting chance. Now it's the chickens and geese and even dogs at the northern outskirts of Seattle that need defending. Reporter Brian Callanan, of CNN affiliate KCPQ has the details.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JOE SALLEE, CHICKEN FARMER: Well this is what is left. They got them into a corner. And that's seven chickens gone.

BRIAN CALLANAN, KCPQ: Seven chickens there, six more taken right out of the hen house. In all, about half of Joe Sallee's stock of chickens has been killed in the last few days by mink freed from a local mink farm. The Animal Liberation Front has taken responsibility for releasing 10,000 mink, right now more than a thousand are still on the loose.

J. SALLEE: That's what it is, it's a tidal wave.

CALLANAN: The problem has gotten so bad at the Sallee ranch, the minks have actually gotten inside the house and inside their drainage system. The mink problem is everywhere in this community, and for the most part, unavoidable and unstoppable. Residents say the animals are preying on dogs and cats, too, and have already cost thousands in damages. Many here say the longer these domestic mink are on the loose the more separate they will be to hunt animals like these. And to those who freed the mink in the name of animal liberation...

DIANE SALLEE, CHICKEN FARMER: But, they are actually doing more injury to animals in general, as well as the mink, than they are helping.

J. SALLEE: It not only gets the mink farmer, it gets all the rest of us around here.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: A group called Fur Commission, USA, is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the mink's liberators.

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Aired September 1, 2003 - 14:47   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: From our no good deed goes unpunished file comes this story out of Washington State. Take 10,000 adorable live minks, destined to be killed for their luxuriant fur, and add a group of animal rights activists determined to give the mink a fighting chance. Now it's the chickens and geese and even dogs at the northern outskirts of Seattle that need defending. Reporter Brian Callanan, of CNN affiliate KCPQ has the details.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JOE SALLEE, CHICKEN FARMER: Well this is what is left. They got them into a corner. And that's seven chickens gone.

BRIAN CALLANAN, KCPQ: Seven chickens there, six more taken right out of the hen house. In all, about half of Joe Sallee's stock of chickens has been killed in the last few days by mink freed from a local mink farm. The Animal Liberation Front has taken responsibility for releasing 10,000 mink, right now more than a thousand are still on the loose.

J. SALLEE: That's what it is, it's a tidal wave.

CALLANAN: The problem has gotten so bad at the Sallee ranch, the minks have actually gotten inside the house and inside their drainage system. The mink problem is everywhere in this community, and for the most part, unavoidable and unstoppable. Residents say the animals are preying on dogs and cats, too, and have already cost thousands in damages. Many here say the longer these domestic mink are on the loose the more separate they will be to hunt animals like these. And to those who freed the mink in the name of animal liberation...

DIANE SALLEE, CHICKEN FARMER: But, they are actually doing more injury to animals in general, as well as the mink, than they are helping.

J. SALLEE: It not only gets the mink farmer, it gets all the rest of us around here.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: A group called Fur Commission, USA, is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the mink's liberators.

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com