The True Founder Of Minknery

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It turns out I am not the one to start minkenry. It was apparently started in the mid 1800's by a man named Mr H. Resseque of Verona, New York.

Mr Resseque had two tame female mink whom he would take to fairs and let people handle and pet. The mink were safe with anyone, but definitely preferred Mr Resseque. Mr Resseque made his passion into a business, and he started breeding and selling mink. At one point he had 90 breeding mink (6 males to every female) and he claimed that he couldn't fill the demand for his mink. He called his mink breeding/training "Minkery" which actually makes much more sense then "Minkenry", since I put a useless "n" in their that I borrowed from the "n" in "Falconry".

In addition to being pets, he used his mink to hunt brown rats, and it sounds like he might have had quite the following of people ratting with the mink he sold.

Here's the link for the article...

https://archive.org/details/furbearinganima00couegoog

It's on page 181-185 (page 204-208 of the PDF pages)