Anyone else notice mink always have horrible teeth?

WolfGirl · Aug 4, 2015

Is it just the ones I've been getting or do mink always seem to have horrid teeth? I've never seen so many cases of wild animals with rotten teeth like that. I've cleaned tons of skunks and hardly ever see bad teeth. I'll post pictures of examples here in a bit. Just curious if anyone else has noticed this.

tom k · Aug 4, 2015

Farm raised or wild mink?

marshtaxi · Aug 4, 2015

Yes I have noticed this in our area as well, but most of the mink in our area are also escapees from the ranches and the ranch mink usually break their teeth on the wire on their cages. Because of this I am not real familiar with truly wild mink so I can't comment on them.

Trouble_667 · Aug 5, 2015

I have two being beetled right now. You made me go check them! haha Mine seem to be just fine; all their teeth are there and none appear to have any rot. I got them from the north eastern part of the US.

nuclearjunky · Aug 5, 2015

I have two mink skulls, one from a Farm and one trappend in the wild. Teeth are ok in both. Contrasting to this, teeth in my striped Skunk skull are horrible.

WolfGirl · Aug 5, 2015

All are trap caught from north Missouri area. If they are escapees I have no idea. Here are a few examples

Maybe it's just because they're from Missouri lol