{"id":12272,"date":"2022-11-18T15:44:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T22:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12272"},"modified":"2023-01-27T16:40:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T23:40:49","slug":"minks-on-the-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/11\/18\/minks-on-the-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Minks On The Run"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.10tv.com\/article\/news\/local\/ohio\/thousands-of-minks-unaccounted-for-from-northwest-ohio-farm\/530-20a984f5-822a-4f71-ae37-8b3f7c5e911b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from WBNS 10TV<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Some 10,000 mink loose, missing after vandalism at northwest Ohio farm<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert Sheriff\u2019s Office said the suspects destroyed fencing and approximately 25,000-40,000 mink were released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Up to 40,000 mink released from northwest Ohio farm\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vHAPBH206aU?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014 Vandalism freed thousands of mink at a rural northwest Ohio farm, leaving an estimated 10,000 of the small carnivorous mammals unaccounted for Tuesday evening, the local sheriff said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So many minks were killed crossing a nearby road that a plow was brought in to help clear the carcasses away, said Van Wert County Sheriff Thomas Riggenbach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The property owner initially estimated 25,000 to 40,000 mink were released from their cages at Lion Farms, Riggenbach said. But he said employees at the farm were able to corral many of the ones that remained on the property, which is less than 15 miles from the Indiana state line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.10tv.com\/article\/news\/local\/ohio\/thousands-of-minks-unaccounted-for-from-northwest-ohio-farm\/530-20a984f5-822a-4f71-ae37-8b3f7c5e911b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at WBNS<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from WBNS 10TV Some 10,000 mink loose, missing after vandalism at northwest Ohio farm The Van Wert Sheriff\u2019s Office said the suspects destroyed fencing and approximately 25,000-40,000 mink were released. COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014 Vandalism freed thousands of mink at a rural northwest Ohio farm, leaving an estimated 10,000 of the small carnivorous mammals unaccounted for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}