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sl8

(13,851 posts) Tue Dec 25, 2018, 05:15 PM Dec 2018

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Give a mink a fish ...

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Give a mink a fish ... (Original Post) sl8 Dec 2018 OP

AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!! bluestarone Dec 2018 #1

Aawww! How kind of the fisherman... 3catwoman3 Dec 2018 #2

Ha! That little critter can scoot. I guess the drive through is open. dameatball Dec 2018 #3

So very sweet UpInArms Dec 2018 #4

Poor thing must be starving! TygrBright Dec 2018 #5

My first thought was thank goodness some @sshole wasn't wearing the cute little fella MLAA Dec 2018 #6

...and the Internet will squee for the day. DRoseDARs Dec 2018 #7

Very cute. nt tblue37 Dec 2018 #8

At the end of the video the man says (translated to English)... debsy Dec 2018 #9

Getting eaten alive is par for the course if you're a fish. hay rick Dec 2018 #13

indeed! debsy Dec 2018 #15

That might make ice fishing bearable!! LakeArenal Dec 2018 #10

Unusually satisfying. Crutchez_CuiBono Dec 2018 #11

The mink probably observed that where there were ice fishermen there were fish, The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2018 #12

The fisherman was expecting some kind of gesture of thanks DFW Dec 2018 #14

I think those two have met before. Laffy Kat Dec 2018 #16

You know it Brother Buzz Dec 2018 #18

He knows where the fishing is good. keithbvadu2 Dec 2018 #17

bluestarone

(17,012 posts)

1. AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 05:37 PM

Dec 2018

TY

3catwoman3

(24,025 posts)

2. Aawww! How kind of the fisherman...

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 05:51 PM

Dec 2018

...to share - he made that mink’s day.

dameatball

(7,399 posts)

3. Ha! That little critter can scoot. I guess the drive through is open.

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 05:51 PM

Dec 2018

UpInArms

(51,284 posts)

4. So very sweet

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 05:54 PM

Dec 2018

am glad the fisherman was a kind and sharing person

TygrBright

(20,763 posts)

5. Poor thing must be starving!

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 06:33 PM

Dec 2018

Hard to imagine a critter as assiduously hunted/trapped as a mink willingly approaching a human except in near-extremity!

interestedly,
Bright

MLAA

(17,317 posts)

6. My first thought was thank goodness some @sshole wasn't wearing the cute little fella

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 06:50 PM

Dec 2018

DRoseDARs

(6,810 posts)

7. ...and the Internet will squee for the day.

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 07:15 PM

Dec 2018

eom

tblue37

(65,458 posts)

8. Very cute. nt

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 07:17 PM

Dec 2018

debsy

(530 posts)

9. At the end of the video the man says (translated to English)...

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 07:21 PM

Dec 2018

"Thank you! You're welcome" lol... Funny how we think of the mink being happy but think nothing of the fish he was given to eat alive! Merry Christmas, everyone!

hay rick

(7,633 posts)

13. Getting eaten alive is par for the course if you're a fish.

Reply to debsy (Reply #9)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 08:43 PM

Dec 2018

Hard to imagine that dangling on a hook before being snapped up by a bigger fish is a less unkind fate. Merry Christmas!

debsy

(530 posts)

15. indeed!

Reply to hay rick (Reply #13)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 10:43 PM

Dec 2018

LakeArenal

(28,835 posts)

10. That might make ice fishing bearable!!

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 07:23 PM

Dec 2018

Joke... I live in Central WI. Ice fishing loved. By some... Not me...

Mink is cute as heck.

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)

11. Unusually satisfying.

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 07:47 PM

Dec 2018

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,800 posts)

12. The mink probably observed that where there were ice fishermen there were fish,

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 08:23 PM

Dec 2018

and decided to try begging. It worked, so the mink comes back for more.

DFW

(54,426 posts)

14. The fisherman was expecting some kind of gesture of thanks

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 10:37 PM

Dec 2018

At the end, he says, "fine, so you're welcome."

Laffy Kat

(16,385 posts)

16. I think those two have met before.

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 11:49 PM

Dec 2018

Really sweet.

Brother Buzz

(36,451 posts)

18. You know it

Reply to Laffy Kat (Reply #16)

Wed Dec 26, 2018, 04:24 AM

Dec 2018

And I suspect it visits all the fishermen. Even money says the fishermen affectionately named it, 'The moocher'.

keithbvadu2

(36,865 posts)

17. He knows where the fishing is good.

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2018, 02:14 AM

Dec 2018

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