I'd like some crocodile-skin shoes to go with that fur coat, please.

What sane human would possibly see the pelt of an animal worn across his or her shoulders as a classy sign of status? Unfortunately, this is so. Many see wearing many sumptuous animal furs as both a sign of showing prosperity and some even find it seductive. I wonder if these people would find is so charming and alluring if an animal were to waltz in wearing a coat of human skin, instead. I highly doubt so, and yet this is exactly what they are doing themselves.

It is no secret that fur coats are made from animal skins, but what remains to be one is the knowledge of the horrendous torture the animals undergo. Do these people who wear fur really think the animal painlessly died of natural causes after a long healthy life and a person who sold fur simply scooped it up off the floor after coming across it by accident? If that were true, not many fur coats would be made at the rate that they are.



For one full-length fur coat, forty animals are brutally killed and skinned in an act which should constitute as murder, while fur farmers want customers to believe that these animals were killed humanely and raised on special farms for the purpose, as opposed to brutally dragged from their wild habitats and killed.

Animals are often killed by electrocution via the mouth or anus, poison injections, necks broken by blunt force or gassed to death. They are also regularly caught by a system named ‘fur trapping’. This is when hunters needing the fur to make coats for customers set out pain leghole traps and snares, which the animal then steps into. Animals have been known to bite of their own limbs to get free from these traps, and often break teeth, bones and amputate limbs trying to force themselves free, because of this they are in agony until the hunter finds and kills them, and if these wounds get infected, or other predatory animals smell the blood and come to get them, they die. Gunshot, which is much quicker, would be more humane, but hunters do not like to shoot them as it would damage the fur with blood and tearing.



It is not adequate to say that some animal are more common than others, and so as they are not rare it is not so awful to kill them, as all animals feel pain no matter what the breed. Even more money is exchanged between customer and hunter for the skins of bigger game animals such as lions, zebras and tigers, and unfortunately products such as the tusks and teeth of animals like elephants and leopards are very popular amongst the wealthy and overly opulent.

Animal cruelty at the zoo.

Although nowadays it must be admitted many zoos are now realizing animals need to be kept in accurate representations of their natural habitats and are striving to see that this is completed to standards, it was never always this way, and there are many zoo’s that use outdated methods which are so old it is considered animal cruelty and ignorant.

Animals do not like to be removed from their homes in the wild and placed in a strange enclosure any less than a human would and many animals are abused by the zoos who pledge to care for them, and we must remember that not all zookeepers are animal lovers as they claim to be.

Many zoos do not make an effort to keep mother and child, or indeed families, together after the young are born, they are sold off once they no long draw in the public with their promise of being adorable and ‘a new arrival!.’. It is horrifically common that they are sold to testing facilities and canned hunting ranches, were those who are cruel and rich enough to do so can shoot and kill a wild animal for sport in a fenced in area.

Furthermore, there are still zoo’s open for business which do not seem to comprehend that animals are intelligent creatures which need their minds stimulating. I have taken the time to find a video which accurately portrays more information about zoos and I implore you to take a few minutes of time to watch it.



In 1992 the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection known as BUAV unearthed that the Woburn Wild Animal Park and Longleat Safari Park were providing the company Shamrock GB Limited with primates, which is the UK’s largest supplier of monkeys and small rodents for scientific research. Animals that have not already died prematurely from stress, it has been proven, are sold to the exotic meat industry and to the circuses.