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Old December 12th, 2005, 12:54 AM
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Cat and Dog fur ***Disturbing Video***

Ever wonder where that fur on your cat toy you bought came from? Or perhaps that fur lining on your boots or hat? If it was imported by China it is most likely cat or dog fur. But why havn't we seen it on the labels then? Most likely because it's labeled as some animal we havn't even heard of like a "china wolf" or "geou wolf". The people who produce these furs said they'll put any label on the product as long as it sells the fur. But wait this doesn't even stop at fooling the consumer.

You can imagine the enviroment that such and industry provides to the cat and dogs. Dogs and cats are crammed into small and unsanitary abandoned buildings to breed. When they're shipped they are crammed into wired cages so small that the wires themselves cut the cats or dogs. In one instance 25 large dogs(german shepards, goldens) were crammed into a cage small enough to fit through a small bathroom door, 15 cats stuffed into a cage small enough to slide under your bed. If the cats and dogs are unlucky enough tp survive this horrible event they are faced with a terrible fate, to be skinned alive. Yes skinned alive, strung up by wires and skinned alive.

I've linked a video presenting all that I've talked about beware this video is not for the faint hearted.
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs....at_fur_boards2
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Old December 12th, 2005, 02:14 PM
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Graphic Disturbing Video

If this is the video footage I think it is, please be warned that it is very disturbing. I could not watch the entire thing and was crying almost immediately. Watcher beware! It is very heartbreaking and nauseating.

Sir Paul McCartney and his wife appeared on BBC news whilst viewing this and had much disgust for this and are being very vocal about this barbaric torturing of animals......
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Old December 12th, 2005, 02:29 PM
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Personally don't buy fur. Can't watch video clip. Just the thought of this is making me ill.:sad:
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Old December 12th, 2005, 02:53 PM
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I saw it was on again yesterday on CNN,did not watch the horrific video.
If anyone has seen the small very lifelike cats in any giftshop or mall..I had suspicions they were not "rabbit-fur"and today I check them out.
They are labelled"made in China"and now I am 100% sure they are made of cat-fur!!
I asked the storeclerk about it and she said rabbit,I then told her about the cat-fur from China and she was dumbfounded and will talk to the store-owner..
It is not so much the killing of cats/dog,although that is bad enough,but the horror is,they are skinned alive and discarded still breathing.
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Old December 12th, 2005, 03:53 PM
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I don't know about that, I have some of those fur mousies (labeled rabbit fur) and it doesn't feel like cat fur at all. It's sleeker and slipperier and smoother. Could be dog since there are so many more kinds of dog, but all the mousies in the bin are consistently the same texture, you know? And they'd have to be only white cats/dogs, it's definitely genuinely white fur. I also have a more "poofy" fur ball which I strongly suspect is a bunny tail. I know it's kind of gross, but . . . the cats just go nuts over them.

I don't mind buying fur products as long as the animal is being eaten. I mean, if you're going to eat a cow anyway, you might as well get some leather too. But I don't (knowingly) buy anything that is raised or used JUST for their fur.

China is horribly lax about worker rights / animals rights / industry standards . . . I wish to God the US would stop trading with them! Yeah, stuff made in the US is more expensive . . . BECAUSE WE HAVE STANDARDS.

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Old December 12th, 2005, 05:00 PM
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LM1313 What I am talking about are not little cat-toys,but very life-like ornamental cats,the size of a kitten,I have seen them with Calico-fur,brown striped Tabby-fur,if someone can show me,where in China these kind of rabbits exist,I might believe it
The problem with import is any fur cheaper than $150US(imported to the US)does not require origin of the fur.It will be put on jacket-hoods,as boot-lining and gloves.The Chinese call cat-fur wild Chinese cat,dogfur Chinese Jackals(sp?)or there will be no label at all.
I watched a program about the Great White Shark.It is being killed by the thousands,guess by whom?? Guess why??
The Chinese are killing them only for their fins,to become a $150 bowl of soup.
The rest of this magnificent shark is thrown back in to the ocean,where it will drown.
I wish our government would completely stop our dealings with China,scrap the Olympics(which they should never have been awarded,simply because of their human rights issues.
I feel for the few Chinese people who dare speak up against these horrors,but as long as the world does not speak up,it will continue.
Sorry for babbling,but what goes on makes me just sick...
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