TAKE ACTION: Help stop the CRUEL fur industry.

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Urge Your Local Pet-Supply Store to Go Fur-Free

 

TAKE ACTION - HELP STOP THE CRUEL FUR INDUSTRY

 

 

1- General animal fur: http://www.furisdead.com/pledge-furfree.asp

2- Seals massacre for fur: http://www.protectseals.org/

 

 

DO NOT SUPPORT THE CRIMES IN THIS INDUSTRY

* BOYCOTT EVERY ENTERPRISE WHO SELLS FUR *

 

 

 

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REALITY CHECK: HOW CRUEL IS THE FUR INDUSTRY?

 

 

FUR INDUSTRY - WHAT HAPPENS TO THE ANIMALS:

Video: http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=fur_farm

 

 

Cats and Dogs tortured and killed for fur:

Video: http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=jcruel_china_dog_UK

 

 

More videos:

Seals massacre:

http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=canada_seal_hunt

http://www.hsus2.org/slideshow-seal-hunt/sealhunt.html

 

More: http://www.petatv.com/skins.html

 

 

Photos:

 

 

Blue Jay in a Leghold Trap Coyote in a Leghold Trap Dog With Paw Mangled

in Trap

 

Fox in a Leghold Trap Leghold Trap Lynx Stuck in Leghold Trap

 

Mink in a Leghold Trap " Non-Target " Deer Stuck in Leghold Trap Squirrel in

Leghold Trap

 

 

 

 

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Will you do something right now to help stop the

horrific slaughter of cats, dogs, and other animals for their skins?

 

Please ask your local pet-supply store whether it

carries toys made from fur. Chances are that if you ask the question politely

and explain what you know about the fur industry, the store owner will

appreciate knowing the truth.

 

Local retailers need to know that furriers often

deliberately mislabel cat toys as either fake fur or fur from animals other than

skinned cats. They also need to know that every year, millions of

animals-including dogs and cats-are cruelly beaten, boiled, hung upside-down,

electrocuted, and skinned alive for their fur.

 

As a valued customer, you have clout, and your

local pet-supply store very well might want to go fur-free and pull all fur

products from its stores. People who care about animals don't have any business

buying or selling dead animals' skins!

 

Here are four tips for talking to your local

retailer about fur:

 

Take a friend with you for moral support.

 

Leave PETA videos and literature with store

owners and for their customers if the owners agree.

 

Be emotional. Tell a story. Remind your

listener that animals have feelings just as we do. You can find specific

examples of cruelty to animals at FurIsDead.com.

 

Be kind and respectful. Remember, most people

care about animals and want to do all that they can to stop animal abuse.

By simply speaking up, you can educate people in

your community, positively affect their attitudes and lifestyles, and make a

real difference for animals.

 

 

Millions of animals around the world are suffering

at the hands of humans. And they're depending on us to save them. Won't you

please take action right now to help stop the abuse and torture of animals for

their fur? Remember, PETA can offer guidance, and there is a wealth of

information on our Web sites to help you talk to others about fur. As politician

Edmund Burke once said, " The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for

good men to do nothing. "

 

With my gratitude,

 

Ingrid E. Newkirk

President

 

P.S. PETA campaigners are out nearly every day of

the year organizing anti-fur protests, talking to the media about what's wrong

with fur, doing our best to persuade corporate officials to stop selling and

promoting fur, and much, much more. Together, we are making a huge difference.

We need you to help us right now with our work to help animals on fur farms by

making a special donation to support this vital campaign.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm writing to follow up on my recent e-mail and

to urge you to help stop the suffering of millions of animals on fur farms in

China, Europe, and the United States.

 

Our goal is to, by March 5, sign up 75,000

people to take the pledge to go fur-free. If you haven't already done so, please

sign the pledge today, and tell everyone you know about the horrors of the fur

trade and urge them to sign the pledge too.

 

No animal abusers are more callous or arrogant

than those in the fur trade. And the horrors that they force innocent animals to

endure are unconscionable. What our shocking undercover video footage of Chinese

fur farms shows is awful, so please prepare yourself.

 

All sorts of animals suffer, including raccoons,

rabbits, minks, foxes, dogs, and cats. While animals are still alive and

struggling desperately, workers flip them on their backs or hang them

upside-down by their feet or tails to skin them. In one case, as workers began

to cut skin and fur from a dog's leg, her free limbs kicked and writhed. When

she struggled too much for the workers to get a clean cut, they threw her to the

ground and stomped on her neck and head.

 

When the fur was finally peeled over her head,

her naked and bloody body was thrown onto a heap of carcasses. Some of the

animals were still alive, breathing in ragged gasps and blinking slowly. Before

they are skinned, animals are pulled from their cages, slammed against the wall,

and thrown to the ground. Workers beat them with metal rods, causing broken

bones and convulsions, but not always death. Meanwhile, the other animals watch

helplessly from their cages, awaiting their turn.

 

Please, please, please-help us stop this

unimaginable cruelty today:

 

Sign our pledge to never buy or wear any fur.

 

Make a donation and help PETA spread the word

about fur to consumers around the world.

Send a letter to the Chinese ambassador urging

China to enact animal welfare standards to stop the cruel handling and killing

of dogs, cats, and other animals in the fur industry.

 

 

Very truly yours,

 

Ingrid E. Newkirk

President