Walser said police, farm personnel and volunteers located most of the animals by noon. He said the farm owners told him that the animals have spent their lives in cages and are probably unable to hunt for food or locate water. "When I got up there, there was mink all over." Walser said many of the animals returned to the property after they were released, possibly because they were searching for food. Police Chief Fred Walser said someone broke down the fence of the farm, which is on 339th Avenue Southeast between Sultan and Startup, and opened up all of the chicken coop-like cages."I think some animal rights group went it and broke down the fences," Walser said. Sultan police, volunteers and owners of a local mink farm spent much of this morning trying to round up an estimated 10,000 mink which were set free late last night. "I can't help but think he's here to serve a higher purpose." 10,000 MINK SET FREE! "To me, it's a miracle or divine intervention," Grimm said. Grimm said that Quentin's "bad days are behind him for good." And with that thought in mind, Grimm took Quentin's story public. Instead, she turned him over to Randy Grimm, the founder of Stray Rescue of St. Quentin - named for the San Quentin State Prison - beat the odds, and so Ficken didn't have the heart to put him back into the gas chamber. But when the death chamber doors opened again, Quentin greeted animal-control supervisor Rosemary Ficken with his tail and tongue wagging. Louis gas chamber which was packed with unwanted dogs. Not many would have thought so after Quentin, a 30-pound Besenji mix, entered a St. His name is Quentin, and he's one lucky dog. One distraught hotel visitor told us "when it is sunny he has little shade, when it rains he gets wet and when its cold he has to break the ice on the stream to drink." Another visitor informed us he has been there for 8 years and is used in a "show" in the evening. Visitors have told us that the tiger has no where to hide from people and has little protection from the elements as the roof is open to the sky. The side of the cage is metal bars and the glass front looks out onto the breakfast room. The tiger lives in a small pen with artificial rocks and plants, a small stream and an astro-turf floor. The Captive Animals' Protection Society has received complaints from visitors to the Lotte Hotel in Central Pusan, Korea, about a Siberian Tiger named Caesar, who is "on display" to guests. One of the activists, Michal Kolesar, told AFP that thousands of horses are trucked every year from Eastern Europe to Italian slaughterhouses. The activists wanted to bring the public's attention to the deplorable conditions in which the animals are transported from Eastern Europe. Prague, Animal-rights activists blockaded a border crossing between Czech Republic and Poland where a Lithuanian truck laden with 13 horses was about to cross. ACTIVISTS STOP TRUCK OF SLAUGHTER-BOUND HORSES! We estimate we could probably be catching 10 to 20 per cent more cod if we bring the whale stocks down to the optimum level." For "optimum level," read the bare number of whales needed to avoid extinction so Icelanders can maximize their fish catch. Whales are very big and there's a lot of them, so they are quite obviously having an impact on fish stocks. But Stephan Asmundsson, Iceland's whaling commissioner, admits that, "The driving force behind this isn't so much the whaling as the fisheries. After the animals have been dissected and their stomach contents examined for cod, the blubber and meat will be sold. Iceland, despite objections from the International Whaling Commission, says it will kill 500 whales over the next two years - following the Japanese in a so-called "harvest" for scientific purposes. The Japanese are laughtering dolphins, the Californians pelicans and cormorants, while the Japanese, Norwegians and Icelanders are increasing their illegal kill of whales. A seal cull is now being considered on the West Coast - about 4 per cent of a seal's diet is salmon. Namibians, faulting seals for their reduced catches, killed 60,000 last year. Thousands of seals are being killed on Canada's Atlantic coast, blamed for the failed cod recovery. The results are bloody, brutal and unfair. As global stocks of large commercial fish plunge to 10 per cent of their 1950 levels, fishers around the world are already blaming their reduced catches on seals, dolphins, birds and whales. Punishing innocent species is the first tragic consequence of overfishing our planet's oceans. THE INNOCENT VICTIMS OF OVERFISHING OUR OCEANS!
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