RE: cat and dog fur
Hi Bonnie, That is terrible, how could they do that...But what can we do? Lisa -Original Message- From: BONNIE J KALMBACH [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 8:25 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: cat and dog fur The Phillippines is also a source of cat fur. The ABC video showed a fur operation there. In a cage that had been full of cats, the last two terrified-looking cats were clinging to one another as workers took them out one by one and strangled them in front of the other cats. These cats knew what their fate was. The film was shown over a year ago but it's all coming back now. I wrote a letter to the Phillippine embassy; someone there wrote back denying it was happening and indignantly demanded to know the address of the factory. The video had only said this was happening in the Phillippines but I hope they got plenty of other letters. I think the Burlington Coat factory was one chain mentioned that was selling dog and cat fur trimmed coats. A lot of the coat labels had names of made-up animals like Russian ard-wolf. Many people don't want to hear about the horrible things animals go through; they think nothing can be done but we have to keep bringing it up - it only takes a few dedicated people to start changes in the way we think and do things...it always has, as someone once said. Bonnie in WI - Original Message - From: Kerry MacKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, October 30, 2005 4:33 pm Subject: Re: Chinese cat and dog fur Isn't it odd how people talk about someone behaving like an animal when they behave in a particulary nasty way. No animal is capable of the horrors perpetrated by humans. I would like to see a huge campaign mounted to encourage a boycott of Chinese goods until they shape up. Since half the stuff we buy these days seems to come from China it would have to give them pause. On the other hand there probably isn't a single country in the world that treats animals with respect. I like to think that one day people will look back at the way we behavetowards animals as they look at slavery today---and wonder how we could possibly have thought it was ok to use, abuse, eat and wear them. Kerry
Re: cat and dog fur
Stop buying furs period and fake furs of unknown or questionable origin. Like the tome says...fur belongs on beautiful animals and ugly people. - Original Message - From: Lisa Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 8:24 AM Subject: RE: cat and dog fur Hi Bonnie, That is terrible, how could they do that...But what can we do? Lisa -Original Message- From: BONNIE J KALMBACH [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 8:25 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: cat and dog fur The Phillippines is also a source of cat fur. The ABC video showed a fur operation there. In a cage that had been full of cats, the last two terrified-looking cats were clinging to one another as workers took them out one by one and strangled them in front of the other cats. These cats knew what their fate was. The film was shown over a year ago but it's all coming back now. I wrote a letter to the Phillippine embassy; someone there wrote back denying it was happening and indignantly demanded to know the address of the factory. The video had only said this was happening in the Phillippines but I hope they got plenty of other letters. I think the Burlington Coat factory was one chain mentioned that was selling dog and cat fur trimmed coats. A lot of the coat labels had names of made-up animals like Russian ard-wolf. Many people don't want to hear about the horrible things animals go through; they think nothing can be done but we have to keep bringing it up - it only takes a few dedicated people to start changes in the way we think and do things...it always has, as someone once said. Bonnie in WI - Original Message - From: Kerry MacKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, October 30, 2005 4:33 pm Subject: Re: Chinese cat and dog fur Isn't it odd how people talk about someone behaving like an animal when they behave in a particulary nasty way. No animal is capable of the horrors perpetrated by humans. I would like to see a huge campaign mounted to encourage a boycott of Chinese goods until they shape up. Since half the stuff we buy these days seems to come from China it would have to give them pause. On the other hand there probably isn't a single country in the world that treats animals with respect. I like to think that one day people will look back at the way we behavetowards animals as they look at slavery today---and wonder how we could possibly have thought it was ok to use, abuse, eat and wear them. Kerry
Chinese cat and dog fur
Yes unfortunately very true. It is much cheaper to import cat and dog fur from china than fake fur. Last year I voiced my disgust at a couple of shops here in the uk for passing furry ball scarfs off as fake - they were not labelled and smelled like animal and you could see the animal skin it was so poorly made. I ended up repoting the shops to peta and getting fur trade info sent out to them. The chinese fur trade is cruel beyond belief. Peta recently got some undercover video footage which I daren't watch because I'll be tootraumatised. They do skin alive as they believe the adrenylin pumping provides for a better quality pelt. They steal people's pets too for the fur - the whole thing is sick. I know peta are often seen as extreme but on this one they appear to be spot on sadly. Michelle, Buddy, Minstrel Angel Bramble (After my sighting I played Bramble's favourite music and had his ashes casket on one shoulder and tidge's on the other telling them I'm happy for them to be with me whenever they want)
Re: Chinese cat and dog fur
ABC News, I think it was 20/20, also had a segment on the Chinese dog and cat fur trade and a video! There was a German Shepherd, tail happily wagging, being led off to his terrible fate and then it was filmed. Let's face it, all fur is cruel! Whether an wild animal is caught in a trap, has it's neck broken or suffers anal electrocution on a fur farm - where it's life has been spent in a tiny cage - the fur trade is cruelty incarnate. Nobody has to wear fur anymore except perhaps some Inuit who live in Arctic regions. Check out a great video called The Witness made by a group called Tribe of Heart. It's about an average blue collar worker from, I think, the Bronx, who discovers the inner workings of the fur trade. In the final scene, he had rigged up a video camera on his van and drives around Manhattan showing scenes of animals struggling in traps, being killed for fur, to holiday shoppers. Many onlookers look stunned, avert their eyes, and some cry. Bonnie in WI - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, October 30, 2005 11:35 am Subject: Chinese cat and dog fur Yes unfortunately very true. It is much cheaper to import cat and dog fur from china than fake fur. Last year I voiced my disgust at a couple of shops here in the uk for passing furry ball scarfs off as fake - they were not labelled and smelled like animal and you could see the animal skin it was so poorly made. I ended up repoting the shops to peta and getting fur trade info sent out to them. The chinese fur trade is cruel beyond belief. Peta recently got some undercover video footage which I daren't watch because I'll be too traumatised. They do skin alive as they believe the adrenylin pumping provides for a better quality pelt. They steal people's pets too for the fur - the whole thing is sick. I know peta are often seen as extreme but on this one they appear to be spot on sadly. Michelle, Buddy, Minstrel Angel Bramble (After my sighting I played Bramble's favourite music and had his ashes casket on one shoulder and tidge's on the other telling them I'm happy for them to be with me whenever they want)
Re: cat and dog fur
The Phillippines is also a source of cat fur. The ABC video showed a fur operation there. In a cage that had been full of cats, the last two terrified-looking cats were clinging to one another as workers took them out one by one and strangled them in front of the other cats. These cats knew what their fate was. The film was shown over a year ago but it's all coming back now. I wrote a letter to the Phillippine embassy; someone there wrote back denying it was happening and indignantly demanded to know the address of the factory. The video had only said this was happening in the Phillippines but I hope they got plenty of other letters. I think the Burlington Coat factory was one chain mentioned that was selling dog and cat fur trimmed coats. A lot of the coat labels had names of made-up animals like Russian ard-wolf. Many people don't want to hear about the horrible things animals go through; they think nothing can be done but we have to keep bringing it up - it only takes a few dedicated people to start changes in the way we think and do things...it always has, as someone once said. Bonnie in WI - Original Message - From: Kerry MacKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, October 30, 2005 4:33 pm Subject: Re: Chinese cat and dog fur Isn't it odd how people talk about someone behaving like an animal when they behave in a particulary nasty way. No animal is capable of the horrors perpetrated by humans. I would like to see a huge campaign mounted to encourage a boycott of Chinese goods until they shape up. Since half the stuff we buy these days seems to come from China it would have to give them pause. On the other hand there probably isn't a single country in the world that treats animals with respect. I like to think that one day people will look back at the way we behavetowards animals as they look at slavery today---and wonder how we could possibly have thought it was ok to use, abuse, eat and wear them. Kerry
