Why dog and cat fur trade still flourishes

[Guest guest]

Because there is a German market!!!

I don't know if any of you ever heard of this, Germany is the biggest

market along with Russia. We( animal rights activists )have been

talking of EU ban of this trade, but I am not sure at all if that

really would solve the problem. There are many stores which sell dog

and cat fur under the names Genotte, Lipi, Gaewolf, you can buy them

online, at the stores, supermarkets, fleamarkets, I even have seen

one jacket with dog fur trim, in which a flea was still " living " , I

have seen tons of decorations, figurines made of cat fur, sometimes

of rabbit and dog fur. The British company Hasbro is

selling " Furreal " stuffed animals and toys for children made of such.

Also Rheuma blankets made of cat fur is totally popular here among

elderly people, cat fur is believed to heal the pain, although there

is no such proof.

 

http://www.tigerfreund.de/english/01/catmurder.htm

 

The site above is a site of a friend of mine, who also has worked

with Manfred Karremann, a German TV journalist who mostly focuses on

animal welfare issues, who investigated (undercover) fur factories

filled with caged dogs and cats in China, Thailand and in the

Philippines, together with HSUS in early 1998, has videotaped the

whole procedure, 5-6 hours in all, he then showed his videofootage

for 60 minutes on German TV, where you could see how they got killed(

a part of it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=ecPhF57BQH8 & mode=related & search ), those days I could not view such

things, so my husband did and told me that the animals were stabbed,

strangled then skinned alive, mostly tabby cats. It was the very

beginning of my nightmare, I didn't even know such evilness exists. I

could not understand how Mr. Karremann just could stand and film and

talk to these evil people, although he really is a great animal

advocate, he has saved many animals during his work abroad. The

pictures on the site above were taken by him, for some reason you

cannot view them anymore, maybe better that way, really hard pictures.

 

Now I just wanted to make you aware of the carneval in Freiburg,

Germany, which is coming very soon. That is a tradition there to wear

clothes and huts made of cat fur, we have been protesting, showed

them the footage from China, but these people don't care, so they go

on with this barbaric act of wearing costumes made of cat fur " made

in " China( in Germany it is not allowed to produce such but is

allowed to sell them, as long as they were manufactured somewhere

else ). So, we keep protesting, there is a club in Freiburg whose

members used to wear cat fur costumes but gave it up due to thousands

of protest letters.