Heart 4 Animals

Whether it came from an animal on a fur farm or one who was trapped in the wild, every fur coat, trinket, and bit of trim caused an animal tremendous suffering—and took away a life.

Animals on fur farms spend their entire lives confined to cramped, filthy wire cages. Fur farmers use the cheapest and cruelest killing methods available, including suffocation, electrocution, gas, and poison.

More than half the fur in the U.S. comes from China, where millions of dogs and cats are bludgeoned, hanged, bled to death, and often skinned alive for their fur. Chinese fur is often deliberately mislabeled, so if you wear any fur, there’s no way of knowing for sure whose skin you’re in.

Animals who are trapped in the wild can suffer for days from blood loss, shock, dehydration, frostbite, gangrene, and attacks by predators. They may be caught in steel-jaw traps that slam down on their legs, often cutting to the bone; Conibear traps, which crush their necks with 90 pounds of pressure per square inch; or water-set traps, which leave beavers, muskrats, and other animals struggling for more than nine agonizing minutes before drowning.

> How You Can Help

Source: People For The Ethical treatment of Animals .

Here are several animals that need your help. The letters of appeal have already been drafted for your slight modification and ready to be sent via email:

> Appeal against farm practice of Smashing Heads of Pigs With Hammer

> Speak up for cows that are left to die slow & painful death

> Help stop cruel Dog & Cat Fur trade

> Ask Edmonton to Let elephant Lucy Pack Her Trunk

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I received the following petition and am attaching it for your information and action to help stop the harvesting of helpless dogs and cats for fur. Draft letter can be found here . Video here .

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Right now, in cramped, filthy cages on fur farms throughout China, millions of vulnerable animals await a painful death. It may come from strangulation by a wire noose or a knife slash across the throat.

The skin is then ripped off their broken and abused bodies and will be turned into fur-trimmed hats, jackets, gloves, and other items—items that you will find on the shelves of department stores this fall.

For the Chinese fur industry—one of the world’s largest suppliers of animal fur—this isn’t just about fur coats. The result of the suffering of animals in China may be creeping into consumers’ daily lives right now, often without their even knowing it. You can help us protect animals killed for their skin and stop the fur industry in its tracks by making a special gift today to support PETA’s unique and vital work to end animal abuse.

The ways that the suffering caused by the fur industry appear in the lives of otherwise compassionate consumers is insidious. It may come in the form of a toy purchased for a cat at a pet-supply store—a toy that could be made from the skin of another cat who was stolen, loaded in a crate onto a truck with thousands of other cats, forced to endure days of suffering while being transported to a slaughterhouse in northern China, and then cruelly beaten and skinned. But the label won’t tell you that.

Or those little fur tassels on a pair of gloves. Those might be the fur of a German shepherd or a chow chow, who was once loved and cherished—and then was one day kidnapped and sold at the local animal market. After days without water or food and after being beaten repeatedly, the dog was painfully killed and stripped of skin. Did the label mention that?

The fur industry is so desperate to push its cruel wares that it has even stooped to lying to unsuspecting consumers, intentionally mislabeling fur garments as fake—or as coming from rabbits or other animals when they’re actually from cats and dogs. The fact is that it takes expensive DNA tests to prove what kind of animal was killed to make each piece of fur trim, coat collar, glove lining, cat toy, or furry trinket. So as you can imagine, these tests are rarely, if ever, done.

PETA is leading the fight against the fur trade—both in China and worldwide—and we’re making significant progress. Through our thought-provoking campaigns and groundbreaking undercover investigations, we’re getting major designers and retailers like Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Liz Claiborne Inc., Polo Ralph Lauren, and Tommy Hilfiger to swear off using fur in their collections. But none of what we do is possible without your support. > Your gift today can help Peta’s efforts to shut down the bloody fur industry for good.

Source: People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals .

Whether PETA and our affiliates are convincing top fashion designers such as Alannah Hill to go fur-free or jumping to the rescue of a frightened rabbit, your support makes a difference in every bunny’s life every single day.

When a PETA employee spotted a domesticated bunny hopping down the middle of the street late one rainy night, she sprang into action. Even though she was decked out in high heels and a party dress, she followed the frightened fellow for half an hour through several gardens, shooing him out from under a car and scaling a gate before the bunny finally came to her. Now named Hollywood, the bunny lives with two PETA staffers in sunny California, where he enjoys nibbling on lettuce from the garden and hanging out with his “girlfriend,” a rescued bunny named Cleo.

Each year, millions of individual rabbits just like Hollywood are killed for fur coats, collar and cuff trim, glove lining, and even stuffed animals and baby clothing. Like other animals raised and killed on fur farms, rabbits—who are extremely clean by nature—are kept in tiny, filthy cages, surrounded by their own waste. They spend their entire miserable lives standing on the thin wires of their cage, never having a chance to dig, jump, or play. A recent PETA exposé of rabbit fur farms shows rabbits as they scream like human babies while they are stunned with a handheld electrical device and their throats are cut while they are still conscious.

As a result of PETA’s efforts, other top designers and nearly every retailer, including Donna Karan, Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Vivienne Westwood, Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch, American Eagle, J.Crew, and Forever 21, have also responded to consumer demand and refused to sell rabbit fur.

As a PETA member, you are the driving force that helps us rescue animals like Hollywood and spare millions of other gentle rabbits from being killed and turned into fashion accessories.

On behalf of the animals you are helping, thank you for your kind support.

Kind regards,

Ingrid E. Newkirk
President .

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The following message is an appeal for help from the World Society For the Protection of Animals:

As a fellow animal lover, I know you’ll be moved by the desperate plight of Israel’s working horses.

They spend their lives doing backbreaking work and being mistreated and abused by their masters, only to face a future of neglect and starvation.

Emaciated, weak and often suffering from painful injuries, they may not survive long without your help.

Your gift of just $5 a month will go a long way towards changing the lives of these horses and other suffering animals around the world.

Berty’s story

As a circus horse, Berty spent many years being tormented and humiliated, forced to parade around the ring with a lion on his back for the amusement of the audience.

When Berty’s body became too weak for the circus ring, his owner sold him on as a work horse. Already exhausted from the physical demands of circus life, Berty eventually became unable to pull the impossibly heavy loads his new master demanded. Considered useless, he was deprived of proper food and care.

Fortunately, thanks to a partnership between the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) and Pegasus, an organization that specializes in the care of horses, Berty was taken to a rescue facility where he is now living free from pain.

Sadly, stories like Berty’s are all too common. There are hundreds of working horses and donkeys like Berty that are mistreated and abused by their owners, who work them hard their whole lives only to neglect them when they are too old and tired to be useful.

There is hope for these horses. WSPA has partnered with Pegasus to save abused equines and educate owners on proper horse care.

In the last year, more than 150 working equines have been rescued. With your support we can help save even more.

Please make your urgent donation now and help us prevent more horses and donkeys from suffering.

This is how much your monthly gift can do:

• $5/month could de-worm two rescued horses or donkeys
• $10/month could vaccinate three horses
• $15/month could pay for antibiotics for four equines
• $20/month could rescue a horse or donkey from abuse

Just 70 cents a day could save a horse like Berty.

Or, you can make a special, one-time donation now to help these horses. Thank you for your support. I know that together we can show these horses that people are capable of kindness.

Silia Smith
Regional Director,
WSPA Canada

P.S. These animals work hard for their masters their whole lives. Please help us give them the rest and care they deserve so that they can live out their days with dignity when their working lives are over.

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