Fur Farming

This is in a fur farm

 To kill animals without damaging their fur, trappers usually strangle, beat or stomp them to death. Animals on fur farms may be gassed, electrocuted, poisoned with strychnine or have their necks snapped. These methods are not 100 percent effective and some animals "wake up" while being skinned. Ranch-raised foxes are kept in cages only 2.5 feet square (minks in cages 1-foot-by-3-feet), with up to four animals per cage. Animals can languish in traps for days. Up to 1 out of every 4 trapped animals escapes by chewing off his or her own feet, only to die later from blood loss, fever, gangrene or predation. Every year, thousands of dogs, cats, raptors, and other so-called "trash" animals are crippled or killed by traps. Each year the fur industry kills over 50 million animals for fashion, not including rabbits (no reliable data on rabbits killed worldwide for fur is available). Number of animals to make a fur coat: 12-15 lynx, 10-15 wolves or coyotes, 15-20 foxes, 60-80 minks, 27-30 racoons, 10-12 beavers, 60-100 squirrels. More than 45 million animals worldwide, including raccoon-dogs, rabbits, foxes, mink and chinchillas are raised in cages and killed each year for their fur. Not only are cage-raised animals killed inhumanely, but they suffer from numerous physical and behavioral abnormalities induced by the stress of caging conditions. After spending their short lives in squalid conditions, animals raised on fur farms are killed by cruel methods that preserve the pelt, such as gassing, neck-breaking and anal or vaginal electrocution. Trapping millions of wild animals, including bobcats, coyotes, foxes, lynx, raccoons and wolves, countless dogs and cats, deer, birds and other animals — including threatened and endangered animals — are also injured and killed each year by the indiscriminate traps. Traps, including steel-jaw leg-hold traps, body-gripping traps, and wire neck snares are inhumane devices that inflict great pain and suffering.

Cat and Dog Fur:

 A 1998 investigation by The Humane Society of the United States exposed the international fur industry's ugly secret: the widespread slaughter of companion animals—domestic dogs and cats—for the manufacture of clothing, accessories, and trinkets. Investigators witnessed firsthand the brutal slaughter of domestic dogs and cats in China and other Asian nations. Many of these animals are raised in cold, unsanitary breeding compounds. Some are strays. Others are obviously pets who were most likely stolen. And the killing methods are grisly. Dogs—German shepherds, chows, and mixed breeds—are bludgeoned or bled to death. Cats are often strangled by wire nooses.