Fur Trapping
"Behind every fur there's a story. It's a bloody, barbaric story." - Mary Tyler Moore
Trapped animals must also endure a great amount of pain. The most commonly used trap is the leghold trap. Once the animal's leg is trapped, the animals will try knawing off their leg and constantly struggle to free themselves, causing more and more painful wounds. Even after 12 hours the animal is still in extreme torture and are suffering from exhaustion from all the struggling they did. About one out of every four animals escape from the trap and later die from a predator or blood loss. Other traps include the water-set traps where it an take up to 20 minutes of agony until the animal finally drowns, and pole traps where the animals are caught in a tree and hung upside down until they die or the trapper comes to kill them. The animals that are still alive when the trapper gets there are then beaten or stomped to death. Stomping often involves the trapper standing on the animal's rib cage, focusing mainly on the heart. He then grabs the animal's hind legs and yanks them. Aside from fur people also still wear leather, wool, down and silk. All of which are painfully obtained from animals. Is all this pain really worth one fur coat? Is fashion really that important?
Fast Facts:
One out of four animals that are caught in traps chew off their own leg only to suffer and die later from blood loss or other illnesses attributed to the trap.
Thousands of "trash" animals such as dogs, cats, birds, and other species are trapped each year in fur traps to did.
Every year approximately 10 Million animals die from being trapped in the wild to be skinned for fur coats.
A recent poll showed that 74% of Americans oppose the use of the leghold trap, yet Congress has never banned it.
28% of mink, 24% of raccoons, and 26% of trapped fox would actually chew their limb that was trapped off in hopes of surviving.
Trapped animals that are found alive by the trapper will be shot in the head, stomped to death, or their skulls will be beaten in.
Three Skinned Foxes
Susan Foster from New York was walking her dog in the woods one day when the dog ran into the brush ahead. After hearing her dog cry out in pain, she ran ahead to see what had happened to her dog. Horror filled her eyes as she soon saw that her dog had gotten trapped in a body grip trap. She tried endlessly to free him, but the jaws were too tight around her dog. She could only struggle to free him when as her dog slowly died in horrible pain. Her dog slowly died in agony for 20 minutes. Stories like this are not uncommon. Please protect your companion animals, children, and friends. Join the fight to ban this horrible atrocity.
