In late February the Animal Liberation Front claimed that it released as many as 1,000 mink from an fur farm in Ireland.
Una Heffernan, the owner of the fur farm, disputed that number telling the Kildare Nationalist that although activists opened cages containing more than 1,00 mink, only about 50 were missing after the owners rounded up the mink the next morning.
Of the 50 that were not in their cages and not rounded up, Heffernan said that most were either subsequently returned to the farm or had been shot.
Source:
Farmers and anglers on “mink alert” after break out. The Kildare Nationalist, February 27, 2003.