Ooops! I just found out that the little mink that someone found and wrote to me about is not, as originally thought, a handsome young man but is a beautiful young lady :-)

On April 10 I had an email from a lady in Louisiana who was given a tiny little animal by someone who found it, and she asked me what sort of animal I thought it might be. She thought it was a strange type of ferret but when she mentioned the white chin, I realised it was a mink.
The lady wrote about the mink’s progress and then on May 11, she advised that she’d had to surrender the mink to Zoo Zoom as she decided it would be fairer on the mink to be looked after properly.
Lori & Brett Matte wrote to say that Sebastian, as they named the mink, had settled in happily and was doing fine but after a while, I was wondering how he was getting on. I wrote to Lori the other day and got a reply back, together with photos.
Sebastian is now Saaby and Lori said she’s full of energy and is great fun, a real star at Zoo Zoom. Apparently she won’t eat kibble, she just chows down on boiled chicken wings and raw ground meat and she lives in a big enclosure.
Lori was saying it was quite hard to get a good photo of Saaby, as she’s so quick when awake, but she sent two pictures which show how much Saaby has grown since that photo taken on May 11.

Have you noticed Saaby’s slightly webbed feet in the left-hand picture? Obviously being semi-aquatic, the minks need the webbing to get them moving in the water.

And her coat looks so thick and luxurious in the second photo. Minks are incredibly gorgeous creatures and I am so sorry we don’t have any here in Australia for me to see first hand!

I guess I’ll just have to keep my eyes open when I go overseas and make sure I get to places where I can see them, like in zoos or places like Zoo Zoom.

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