Asia's Dog and Cat Fur Industry
(From PETA)
PETA recently conducted an undercover investigation into the Chinese dog and cat fur trade to show you what the industry is so desperate to hide. Even their veteran investigators were horrified at what they found: Millions of dogs and cats in China are being bludgeoned, hanged, bled to death, and strangled with wire nooses so that their fur can be turned into trim and trinkets. This fur is often deliberately mislabeled as fur from other species and is exported to countries throughout the world to be sold to unsuspecting customers in retail stores. China supplies more than half of the finished fur garments imported for sale in the United States, so the bottom line is that because dog and cat fur is so often mislabeled, if you're buying fur, there's no way to tell whose skin you're wearing.

PETA went into an animal market in Southern China and found cats and dogs languishing in tiny cages, visibly exhausted. Some had been on the road for days, transported in flimsy wire-mesh cages with no food or water. Twenty cats were forced into a single cage. Because of the cross-country transport in such deplorable conditions, our investigators saw dead cats on top of the cages, dying cats and dogs inside the cages, and dogs and cats with open wounds. Some animals were lethargic or frightened, and others were fighting with each other, driven insane from confinement and exposure.
Up to 8,000 animals are loaded onto each truck, with cages stacked on top of each other. Cages containing live animals are commonly tossed from the top of the trucks onto the ground 10 feet below, shattering the legs of the animals inside them. Many of the animals we saw still had collars on, a sign that they were once someone's beloved companions, stolen to be made into fur coats.

You Can Help!
Please write a letter to the Chinese ambassador urging China to enact an animal welfare law that will stop the cruel handling of dogs, cats, and other animals at markets and during transportation:
His Excellency Zhou Wenzhong
Ambassador of the People's Republic of China
Embassy of the People's Republic of China
2300 Connecticut Ave. N.W.Washington, DC 20008
202-328-2574202-328-2582 (fax)
chinaembassy_us@fmprc.gov.cn

Not convinced?
Go here http://www.furisdead.com/feat-dogcatfur.asp and view the video yourself. If a veteran investigator is horrified -then you know this is a big deal. If they endure it, don't you think it is your responsibility to see what happens to them?

What else can I do?
The Humane Society is asking compassionate consumers to sign the Fur Free Pledge (link below). Many compassionate consumers think they never buy fur, but animal pelts are frequently dyed bright colors, sheared, or woven and can look deceptively like fabric or faux fur. Even worse, labeling loopholes allow a garment with fur to go unlabeled if it sells for less than $150. That means common retail items, even discount ones, can be made with pieces of real fur and given a misleading label - duping consumers into supporting this industry. Fight back against this cruelty by signing HSUS’s fur-free pledge now. Simply click the link below.
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/furfreepledge?rk=ppSa1l110zIkW

(Thanks Casey for the info!)