Even though I'd rather have cat/dog fur BANNED & actually Enforced

[lostvirtue]

Gwen Moore rocks my world (and not just on this issue either)

This is fairly important to those people that at least care about the use of dog/cat fur in American products (well, all countries products really, but we don't have a lot of say over whats done other places).  It's being sold as "faux" fur and other types of animal fur.

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[evilgrins]

just going from subject line: so...you want a bunch of bald cats & dogs running around the neighborhood?

[lostvirtue]

Maybe you should actually read the post, it's really not all that funny.

[bleedingdaisy]

ACK!... that made my heart drop.... skinned alive!!! :(

[lostvirtue]

Yeah, I know. It's sad, but I think people should know about it. Many people who wouldn't normally buy fur, buy things with fur trim or "fur" toys without really thinking about it.

I know lots of people don't care about other fur bearing animals, but many people care about dogs/cats, so hopefully this will pass and US producers will stop doing it!!!

[bleedingdaisy]

that makes me wonder about zeros favorite mice. they are furry.... i just thought all that stuff was fake and manufactured ya know? not real animal fur...

wish you could see my face right now. its not happy....im rather disgusted and mad. and sad....

[lostvirtue]

Yeah, SOME of those mice are real fur (not all of them). My mom actually brought her vet a phamlet on fur trade, and the vet stopped (they have a little pet store at the vet) selling them.

It's worse for dogs/cats in some other countries. But yeah, that's why I try very hard not to purchase most animal products. The reality is most animals used in food production etc are not well treated either. I refuse to participate.

[pihkal]

Damnit. I have an Andrew Marc parka. Could you send me information on its potential Dog/Cat fur content (it doesn't have what I was told to be a rabbit fur collar -- and no, I did not, nor would I, purchase it myself)

[pihkal]

Nevermind, it looks like it's just their Marc line that contains real fur mislabled as synthetic. What's going on with the world? Oil prices can't be high enough to make domestic dog cultivation cheaper than petrochemical based synthetics?

[lostvirtue]

Ha, yeah, really, you would think synthetics would be cheaper. I guess not. They must be buying it from the underground humane society black dog/cat fur market. Seriously, where the hell are they doing this?

I would guess most of it is produced out of the country, but what in the world would a designer be thinking to actually choose to fringe their product with Spot?

[pihkal]

From what I read in Gawker (consider the source), the designers involved didn't know their products were being made with domesticated animal fur. They spec the job out to China, and assumed they were receiving what they ordered.

Regardless, it's sad.