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**venediene** · 05-12-2011, 07:17 PM

I am sure questions like this come up all the time but I'll ask it anyway. I keep a number of free-range hens in a remote country area. Recently some mink were either released or escaped from a local fur farm. I cannot secure my hens but have been offered traps to catch the mink alive. If I were to catch one I am then faced with four options: To let the mink to go free and kill my hens, to return the mink to the farm where it will be used for its fur, to return it to the farm to allow it to be killed or to kill it myself. All of these options will ensure suffering at some point to either the mink or hens so which is the most ethical option.

I have been pondering this for some time along with a similar problem when i found fleas on my dog(!) so would be grateful for insight.

05-12-2011, 07:17 PM	#1
venediene Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 433 Senior Member	a question on basic ethics I am sure questions like this come up all the time but I'll ask it anyway. I keep a number of free-range hens in a remote country area. Recently some mink were either released or escaped from a local fur farm. I cannot secure my hens but have been offered traps to catch the mink alive. If I were to catch one I am then faced with four options: To let the mink to go free and kill my hens, to return the mink to the farm where it will be used for its fur, to return it to the farm to allow it to be killed or to kill it myself. All of these options will ensure suffering at some point to either the mink or hens so which is the most ethical option. I have been pondering this for some time along with a similar problem when i found fleas on my dog(!) so would be grateful for insight.
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