A farm manager says someone left a spray-painted message with the letters "ALF" and the phrase "we'll be back." ALF stands for Animal Liberation Front.
Vandals with an animal rights activist group had a partially successful attempt at freeing thousands of minks from a farm in Ohio, but not all of the escapees survived much of their freedom.
VAN WERT, Ohio (AP) Vandalism freed thousands of mink at a rural northwest Ohio farm, leaving an estimated 10,000 of the small carnivorous mammals unaccounted for Tuesday evening, the local sheriff said.