mink

There are 'coons down there, and back here on the Sonoma there are mink. And deer!-- why, that mountain's sure thick with them, and I reckon we can scare up a mountain-lion if we want to real hard.

or what plenty is there where you hunt a day, and not start a buck, or see anything bigger than a mink, or maybe a stray fox!

I never took even a slinking mink or a paddling musk-rat in a cage; though I admit having peppered a few of the dark-skin'd devils, when I had much better have kept my powder in the horn and the lead in its pouch.

I can easily walk ten, fifteen, twenty, any number of miles, commencing at my own door, without going by any house, without crossing a road except where the fox and the mink do: first along by the river, and then the brook, and then the meadow and the woodside.

From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats.

The Scottish Invasive Species Initiative is urging volunteers to come forward to help monitor for the mink, which are on the move after breeding earlier this year.

The Scottish Invasive Species Initiative (Sisi) has asked for help monitoring juvenile American mink, which are leaving their home territories after breeding earlier this year.

The Bill, put forward by People Before Profit's Ruth Coppinger and supported by other government parties, aims to ban the farming of minks on three Irish sites.

American mink (Neovison vison) are a semi-aquatic mustelid that inhabits marine and freshwater systems over a wide geographic range.

The American mink (Neovison vison Schreber, 1777) has spread throughout much of Europe and currently occupies an area stretching from Russia and Scandinavia to Britain and the Iberian Peninsula (Dunstone 1993, Lariviere & Jennings 2009).