To the person who found this site just a short while ago with the search terms chinchilla coats for men:
Please look in my photo albums to the right. Please think long and hard about the methods which are used to put a sweet little creature like my Matilde to death.
I’m sorry, folks, I am not prepared to be rational on this issue. Anyone commenting in defense of fur will have their comments deleted. That may not be fair, but I am unprepared to see both sides of what to me is a fundamentally black and white issue.
I will debate civilly with folks on all sides of the abortion issue. I welcome folks with widely divergent views on faith, homosexuality, and the men’s movement. But I see no other side to the factory farming issue. Purchase of a chinchilla coat is grounds for termination of friendship and family affection — and I can think of no other issue that could lead me to make such a blanket statement.
Please visit here:
Save the Wild Chinchillas
PETA’s account of chinchilla farming practices (warning: read with caution, it is graphic)
Chincare’s page on the chin fur industry
Of course, it is easy to be compassionate towards the small, the furry, the adorable, and the loving. The challenge in my life is not to love Matilde and her kind less — it is to have that same level of intense compassion for the rest of life. I still — intellectually — cling to pacifism, and aspire to vegan-hood (though I fall woefully short). I long to live out a radical consistent-life ethic, and pray regularly for God to help me draw closer to a life of total non-violence. I know I am far from the mark, but I struggle on.
For those of us who are yet without children, small animals teach us responsibility, sacrifice, patience, and unconditional love. I cannot find adequate words to describe how much I love this 2 pound ball of fluff. But as much as I love her, I know I must love more than her alone! Matilde is one tiny creature in His vast creation; when I watch her and hold her, I am overwhelmed by the unspeakable beauty of those things He made! (I often hum this old standard to myself when I hold her.) And I am reminded that just as I care for her, I am called to care for others as well. (On a related note, check out this very touching link.)
I know other pet lovers who say, for any number of reasons, that they prefer animals to people. I’ve certainly been sympathetic to that sentiment on many an occasion! But loving little creatures in my own life has made me more rather than less compassionate towards my own species. Matilde teaches me patience, she teaches me love, and she shows me Christ. (And no, I don’t imagine I see the Virgin in her droppings!)
But though I can pray for those who wear fur coats, and those who profit from them, I cannot yet love them. Nor am I ready to suffer their voices on my blog.
Amen, brother. See, we will agree on some things.
Praise God, Tim!
I think I’m in love with your chinchilla. She’s such a little cutie. It’s a pity I have three cats that would make a small mammals life miserable, as my boyfriend would love a rodent type creature.
Praise God, Tim!
Amen. I don’t know much about chinchillas, but I am a big enthusiast of pets of all kinds.
Do you have the same aversion to meat-eaters? Because I admit to slaughtering a sheep for Christmas dinner last week.
No, I don’t, John — I do make a major distinction between factory farming of fur (for fashion) and raising livestock for food. I grew up spending part of my childhood on a ranch, and have seen some (not much) slaughtering. I desperately WANT to be a vegan (or even a strict vegetarian), but while the spirit is willing, Paul was right on about the old flesh…
Not to mention those who wear sheep-skin coats. I do that too. Where is the line? Cow? Mink? Leather from pigs? Rabbit? Is killing any of the above truly evil? And in any case, is killing a Chinchilla any more repulsive than killing a baby in the womb, the rate of family breakdown, or gang warfare and child abuse? Is it any more repulsive than porn? Yet you allow discussion from all sides of those subjects. I’m sorry; I’m a country boy, and while killing a chin is not nice, your strange moral over-reaction sounds awfully like those who want to ban rabbit-killing and fox-hunting (both pests) on the grounds that foxes and rabbits are cute. I’m an animal lover, with six dogs, two cats and assorted other livestock in my house; unnecessary killing makes me mad too. But animals aren’t people, and we shouldn’t pretend they are.
Can I still have tacky fake fur?
I agree with you, for what it’s worth. I am flummoxed by people who claim animals don’t have some kind of conscious life. My two cats, for instance, are far too clever for one thing. And for another, they are in love. In my weak moments, I envy their regard for each other.
John, I wasn’t making a rational argument — rather, I am clear that this is an issue about which I haven’t the slightest intention of being charitable, openminded, or rational! This is pure emotion, brother, pure and raw!
I’m certainly not about to give up my mother’s mink from 1963. But, OTOH, I’m not about to buy a new fur (except maybe rabbit, because they’re eaten, and, dammit, I live in New York and it’s cold here).
Rabbits are terrible pests, and need to be culled. Otherwise, they out-compete NZ Native animals and eat rare plants and stuff. (I kid you not). For every cute rabbit, there’s a native animal that can’t compete with it.
Hugo, I don’t think you’re irrational at all. My own reaction upon hearing the words “chinchilla coat” is always utter revulsion, followed by a horrified exclamation of, “But chinchillas are *endangered*!” (Even if they weren’t, fur coats are just wrong, except for animals.)
Proud to be a critter-loving tree-hugger.
Maybe the person looking up “chinchilla coats for men” was just trying to find that Snoop Dogg post, but couldn’t remember which blog it was in.
Anyway…I can’t say much on the fur issue, ‘cuz I wear tons of leather! And I’m an unrepentant omnivore. I have no problem with vegetarians, but don’t dig the PETA crowd. Telling people what is prim and proper to have on their plate is just as rude as telling people how and with whom to have sex, ya know? Both the kitchen and the bedroom are intimate places, and not to be intruded upon by others.
But no…chinchillas are cute, can’t argue there!
Hugo I loved your post, it even made me tear up a bit. You’re right about the meaning of pets to those who don’t have kids. To me there is no distinction between person and animal and there isn’t anything I wouldn’t sacrifice for my beloved-most-perfect-creatures (despite their so called “flaws”). Love is irrational, I eat meat, but refuse to watch scenes in movies where something bad happens to an animal. I cry when I see a dead dog on the freeway, but cruise right by when I see an accident (granted I feel bad and hope that noone was hurt, but I don’t have the same emotional response) (also, if nonone had stopped to help, I certainly would). I think it’s the fact that animals are dependent upon our kindness and goodwill, that when I see one that so clearly wasn’t given any it just breaks my heart (for real, not just a little). I love you for loving your little rodent, and that’s real too, this coming from a girl, who was suspended from high school, for beating up a boy who bludgeoned a rat to death. You may remember, maybe not, me being late to class because my old dog, Winnie, was in the hospital. She died October a year ago of cancer, I had to put her to sleep (people said I waited too long). There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think of her and miss her sweet face. Which brings me to a weird point Hugo, if you as a christian, are as devoted to your god, as Winnie was devoted to me (innocently and unwaveringly) (hoping you guys don’t freak out over that one and think myself tantamount to god) then you are an a-okay christian in my book (surely you must know that is saying a lot!). Okay, turning into a big weirdo, must go now. BTW, my cat, who shares your fabulous name, has cancer now too, he’s on his way out, my life (and surely the world) will be a far less richer, loving place when he is gone.
Thank you, Kelly. Thank you.
I’m not generally advocating fur coats, but I do notice that there tends to be a bit of an urban-rural divide on some of these issues. As John notes above, in the country, rabbits may be pests, but city people get all goo-goo about the cute little bunnies…
And while I’m not pro-fur in general, having grown up in the country, I don’t shed any tears when I see a raccoon coat or hat. Damn raccoons maimed and killed my chickens (they didn’t just kill one and eat it because they were hungry, either–they kept killing and maiming without taking a bite) and got into the grain no matter what I did (I’m not saying they aren’t clever, but in the country–or in some cases, the suburbs–they’re the enemy), and ate all the peaches off the trees the day before they would have been perfect AND one attacked a friend of mine in her neighbor’s kitchen, leaving deep, gouging scratches and bites all along her back and arms (this we ultimately blame on people rather than the raccoon, because we assume the raccoon was raised as a cub by some idiot who thought it was cute, and then released it into the wild when they realized that raccoons NEVER make good pets, so that it felt entitled to walk into the house and wasn’t afraid of people… )
Sorry. I was 13 or 14 when the racoon killed my chickens, and I’m still a little cranky about it. Damn them.
La Lubu, I think one can make a distinction between leather, a bi-product of food production, and raising and killing animal solely and unnecessarily for (novelty) clothing.
John’s point about rabbits in NZ can be broadened; being a human means being responsible for the death of animals. This is just as true for those who wish to reorient human life to make our presence on the planet more sustainable and less harmful to the natural world (see John’s rabbits).
Some would use this basic fact to argue that these fur coats aren’t a big deal, because the ecology of modern life involves so much animal death anyway. I’d say that misses the point. The “ecology of modern life” isn’t something we can plausibly abandon, but it is something we can redirect and shift and in a general sense take responsibility for. Within that context, the easiest practice to jettison (with the possible exception of poaching of highly endangered species) is fur farming–for its cruelty, of course, but also for its utter disrespect for our responsibility to be…for lack of a better term at the moment…better killers. We should approach our tremendous responsibility to and awesome power over nature with respect, humility, and seriousness. On that scale, fur farming fails on grounds of unnecessary cruelty, but I’m every bit as offended by the inefficiency, wastefulness and conspicuous consumption of such a practice.
Thank you, DJW, that is nicely put. One of my dear friends in high school now works for the department of Fish and Game here in California. He has had to “cull” deer herds at times when overpopulation threatens the entire species. He’s a crack shot, and he knows he must sacrifice the individual animal to save the species. I couldn’t do it myself, but I honor his great love for God’s creatures. I see no comparison between his taking the life of a deer and what fur pelters do. None.
Hugo, do you distinguish between fur for fashion, and fur for function?
Wearing a mink coat is kind of like driving a Hummer, I think - it’s a status symbol of questionable ethics. So our response to the ethical concern is amplified and distorted by our response to the display of wealth and privilege.
This isn’t something I know much about, but I’ve heard that for prolonged outdoor work in extreme climates, even the best synthetics are just not as good as fur - and they’re nowhere near the price/warmth ratio. Obviously chinchilla coats aren’t made for Antarctic expeditions, but foxfur-trimmed parkas and things are. I feel much better about these practical furs than I do about extravagant coats, but I’m not sure how much of this feeling is from a genuine concern that animals not be sacrificed for insufficient cause, and how much is simple anti-elitism!
I too feel better about it, yami, largely because these are decisions of necessity. I’m not telling the Eskimos to stop wearing fur, at least not until we in warmer climes can provide them with a genuinely comparable substitute. (I’m no more inclined, however, to defend the use of fur on cultural grounds than I am to defend female genital mutilation because it’s “what people have always done.” Tradition is never an adequate defense.)
Let’s close down the factory farms, and then talk to traditional peoples.
DJW: That’s fair. Proper stewardship and creation care, I can support, and strongly.
Hugo: Sorry? You’re expecting “traditional peoples” (white farmers as well as Eskimos) to abandon the fur (from pests like wolves, foxes and rabbits, not chinchilla fur coats for socialites) that have kept their peoples warm for centuries for “a comparable substitute” why? Because killing a rabbit is bad? These cute little things need to be shot. We might as well get what use we can out of them once they’re dead. Ditto wool from sheep, leather from pigs and any number of other things, including furniture from trees. “Urban people are the only ones who care about the “conservation of the countryside” because they don’t have to live in it”. Chinchillas, I concede, are not pests, and so don’t need to die, (So killing them for a coat isn’t so nice) but is killing extra pigs for a leather jacket immoral? Where is the line here? Are you attempting to draw one, or are you just reacting to anyone threatening (the truly gorgeous) Mathilde?
Well, first of all, we can get wool without killing the sheep. And I thought leather came from cows.
In the long run, I do think that a cruelty-free world is possible. I don’t think it is going to happen overnight. In the short run, we need to concentrate on stopping the fur industry; in the long run, we can look thoughtfully at issues of resource management and sustainable, non-violent agricultural practices.
And Matilde thanks you for your kind words.
Well, first of all, we can get wool without killing the sheep. And I thought leather came from cows.
You can get wool without killing the sheep, but you can’t get shearling. And cowhide comes from cows, but there are other leathers, like lambskin, calf, ostrich, alligator, etc. All of which make good eatin’.
Now see, here’s where you’re losing me Hugo. I don’t see any need for killing chinchillas in general, and certainly not Matilde(!), or anyone’s pet for that matter.
But sustainability is more complex than that. Here in Illinois, we’re up to our eyeballs in deer, and I mean literally, if one goes through your windshield. Why? Because there are fewer natural predators and plenty of good, high-octane corn to munch on.
I’ve heard too many pleather-wearing animal-rights types talk about how bad it is to eat meat and wear leather….yet they don’t offer the same critique on synthetics that cause far more environmental damage. What tends to be most sustainable also tends to be local…like John serving up rack of lamb with mint sauce, and selling the hide off to be tanned and used for clothing.
I think the whole “cruelty-free” issue is one where folks have to agree to disagree. We aren’t going to agree on where the cruelty begins. For some people, any use of an animal product is cruelty, because the animal didn’t give you express permission to use it (like your wool example. John would need a labor contract with his sheep, complete with hoof prints, I guess). For others, all killing of animals is cruelty, even if they are dispatched quickly. For others, a quick death for an animal isn’t cruel as long as the life taken is for a purpose (meat on the table). Still others think that some animal suffering is acceptable in the service of a higher purpose (laboratory animals). It’s not a black-and-white issue.
And rare steak is mmm mmm good. Tofu is bleeeccccchhhh. I mean, IMHO.
Oh, meat is not a black and white issue to me, La Lubu — fur for fashion is. Even I can make that distinction!
You can make leather from pig. Really. And cow. For once, I agree with La Lubu. Yes, it happens! ;-)
Well, I repent of my previous ignorance.
La Lubu, I remember a few years ago, I struck and killed a deer on a rural road in Marin County, California. It was dark, and I was going 40 miles an hour when an impressive buck darted in front of my Toyota Tundra. Had I been in a sedan, he might have come through the windshield and injured or killed my passenger and me. But given that mine ws a V8 pickup truck, the buck instead was thrown fifty feet down the road. He got up and staggered off, but I am certain his wounds must have been mortal.
I sobbed — absolutely sobbed — for two hours after that. It remains a horrific memory. (It happened just a week or so after 9/11; on a purely personal level, this was the more shattering experience.) I managed to spend the next several months as a pure vegetarian…
I am not in favor of raising small animals merely for pelts, but I have no problems with eating meat, wearing cattle-leather shoes (though my most-used pair is plastic because you can treat it with 10% bleach - I work around medical fluids), or wearing fur of a multi-use animal like a sheep in gloves or as boot lining. My fave winter material is goose down, however, and Goretex and fleece are useful artificial adjuncts.
zuzu, you’ve eaten alligator? ostrich? eel? My knowledge of exotic cuisine is slim, though I did have eel at a vietnamese restaurant once. Now, I fully agree that white-tailed deer are pestiferous in the bulk, and that So. Illinois needs more deerhunters. Venison is good, and if you don’t like it, you can donate the carcass to a slaughterhouse that sends the meat to poor families.
It was dark, and I was going 40 miles an hour when an impressive buck darted in front of my Toyota Tundra.
Okay, you think you’re being all cruelty-free and you drive a Tundra???
zuzu, you’ve eaten alligator? ostrich? eel?
Yep. Alligator only once, but it was pretty good; I don’t advocate killing them for their skins. Ostrich is actually farmed for meat, and it’s pretty steak-like, though a bit dry. As for eel: unagi!
I should mention that I was with roommates one night driving back from a club in Hartford, and several deer jumped out in front of the Dodge Omni. We hit one. My friends were entirely freaked out, because it was lying in the road. I convinced them to drive to the next gas station (pre-cell-phone days), where I called the state troopers to come put it out of its misery. And the next morning when I went to work, I picked some deer fur out of my roommate’s headlights so she wouldn’t lose her mind.
I gave up the Tundra, I assure you — I have a smaller, sporty, far less offensive Solara now.
Chinchilla farming is just sickening and wrong. However, I would put factory farming in general right on up there. Not on perhaps the same exact level of evil, because of course people do need to eat, but to think that you are eating an animal who suffered needlessly, instead of living how an animal should live! Not to mention that North Americans eat far too much meat anyway, to the point of illness.
How much of our meat also fits the “luxury” definition? I think when we choose to pay cheap prices for tortured animal meat, we are engaging in a false luxury.
I like the local idea better. Eat the deer meat that is available, buy from local farms who free range their animals. It’s hard, and deplorably, my family doesn’t always do it, but we’re heading in that direction.
“For once, I agree with La Lubu. Yes, it happens.” SHHH! Keep that under wraps, John, or the Lefty Police are either going to revoke my card, or haul me in for questioning. Jeez! ;-)
Michelle, I hear what you’re saying about the factory farms; it’s a crime how those places operate. But frankly, I have more sympathy for the human beings working in those factory farms, who are subjected to all kinds of dangerous conditions in the course of their work. The injury rate is astronomical, and many of those are serious injuries, like lost digits or deep slices that cause crippling nerve damage even if the limb isn’t lost.
I have a deep respect for folks who are struggling to keep their family farm afloat; the farm I had a CSA with last year has gone under. It takes a long time (as with any start-up business) to break even, and they just had too many setbacks this year, even though it was their most successful (they supplied many area restaurants from Springfield to St. Louis, as well as going to Farmer’s Markets and running the CSA).
It’s a good idea to support your local farmer (and other local businesses) for many reasons, but we’re not at the point where everyone can do that yet. I do it because I can…access is cheap and available here. Other folks aren’t so lucky.
Yeah, it is difficult to support the people we should support. For me, it means quite a drive. Then I get all tangled up in the whole “should I be wasting gas to go to the farmer’s market” thing.I agree that we are not set up for that to happen on a widespread scale yet.
I also hate the conditions that the workers endure. (I learned a lot from Fast Food Nation), as well as asking my mom as a kid why most of the black folks in town wore big tall black boots. (Chicken plant.) Of course, factory farming is only one of the horrible jobs out there. My husband had a hole punched in his hand at the metal shop where he worked. The result was four fingers left on that hand, three digits which are useable. A lot of the manual labor jobs are really dangerous, including the one he does now, tree trimming. I guess someone’s got to do some of this stuff, but they sure could make the conditions better.
Michelle, one of the good things about CSA is that it can come to your own community. They usually drop to a centralized pickup point.
I’m getting very interested in CSAs and (fairly) locally-grown foods and my local food co-ops (there are two, Flatbush Food Co-Op and Park Slope Food Co-Op, the largest in the country with 11,000 members). Right now, I’m a bit far from any of these options (I rely on public transport), but I’m thinking it’s worth it.
Hugo,
I can’t believe it took me this long to discover that you are an internet, chinchilla, Anabaptist junkie.
Greetings!
Guess what, humans r the dominant species on this planet and have to power to enhance their lives if they desire. Unless u dont eat any animals, animal products, and dont wear or use anything involving animals… u r a hypocrit
I definitely agree with John.[Well,I have 2 adorable chinnys] It’s cruel and barbaric to raise an animal just to get it’s skin. How would those chinchilla farmers like it if their darling mummies raised them for their skin? [Come to think of it, yuck] Really! And for the foxes, rabbits and other pests…it’s still not right to make stuff out of their skin.
Well people do have different views about them, but my view is that we are all animals under the eyes of the Lord [Well I’m not exactly a Christian but oh well] Just that we humans are just a different species of animals. Although people may try to forget the ’shame’ of being an animal [Although I personally see no wrong in being an animal] We are all related, somehow, somewhere, somewhat. People may claim that human beings are smarter than other species of animals. Well I don’t really believe in that. Yes I do admit that humans have more ‘interlect’ than animals, but there are still millions of info that scientists haven’t discovered about animals yet. You may not know, but there may be a chinchilla world with even higher technology right under your nose, in outer space or wherever you can imagine! [Yes that’s very farfetched but oh well]
One time I was surfing the net happily looking for information about my lovely chinchillas[yes I do love them lots] I stumbled across a website bearing chinchilla coats for sale. I have lodged a complaint about the website [I don’t know how I did it, but I just did it] and it apparently isn’t there anymore.
Let me tell you this, all evil animal killers, I even flinch before killing an insect. How old am I? I surely deserve more respect then some other wretched humans like chinchilla hunters and farmers. I am just a 13 year old kid.
Hello! I haven’t been to your blog before. I was web-surfing (started at Trish Wilson’s blog where I sometimes post) and ended up at this thread.
I live in Wisconsin. Just this month (April 11th) the Wisconsin Conservation Congress passed a proposal to make cats an “unprotected species”, thus allowing hunters to shoot them. I am recovering from surgery but went in my wheelchair to both speak at the meeting and vote on this proposal. I am very glad that I did so.
One thing that really got me irritated was that one of the people who was running for an elected office on the local Conservation Congress board (Sauk county) got up and spoke about shooting four “feral” cats. His point was that they needed to be shot because they weighed over 12 pounds. He admitted to an illegal act in front of Department of Natural Resources agents, and was running for office in the congress! Of course, nothing happened to him (and, I didn’t know the people running for office enough to either vote or know who won; I was there for the cats). If he had gotten up and spoken about growing industrial hemp in order to save the family farm, his farm would have been raided and he would have been arrested! And, industrial hemp is both an environmental need and a non-violent crime.
Anyways, this is a hot-button issue with many of us around this area. The Conservation Congress holds a lot of power with the state government. They say they want to shoot cats because cats eat birds, but not that long ago they made it so that now doves can be killed in Wisconsin. They are hypocrites.
Fortunately, our governor has made a public statement that if this law passes the state assembly he will veto it.
Please see:
http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=31029&ntpid=3
and:
http://dontshootthecat.com/
I have two 5 yr. old chinchillas who I love with all my heart. They have distinct & unique personalities and they love their cage and the life they share with us.
I watched the PETA underground video showing the breaking of the necks and electrical shocks of the chinchillas. Our computer is in the same room where we have the chinchilla cage and they were out exercising when I looked at the video. Upon hearing the chinchillas screaming in the video, they became extremely agitated and upset and raced back into their cage. They are still upset 15 minutes after hearing the cries of the chinchillas.
I feel the only thing I can do is to love my chinchillas and all the other animals that I come into contact with with all my heart and soul as a very small effort to counterbalance all of the unfathomable violence and cruelty being done to animals by humans all over this planet every second of every day.
One little thing people often forget. They say leather and sheepskin and rabbit are OK because we eat them, but mink and fox is wrong because we don’t. They forget that just because we don’t eat them doesn’t mean they’re wasted. Mink fat and oil is used in most hypoallergenic health and beauty products. The left over bodies of ranched animals are most commonly either processed into pet food or into organic fertilizers.
Never confuse the words “Only” and “Primary”. Fur is the Primary reason to ranch foxes and minks, not the Only reason.
I just want to say that MOST ranchers use human methods of killing. Is it not PETA who was euthanizing puppies, puppies for Christ sake in the backs of vans and dumping their bodies and alley dumpsters? Yes it was.. if you don’t beleive me
http://www.petakillsanimals.com/
I would never want to see any of my chinchillas used for pelts, I’m lucky in a way I breed majorily muation colors that are not primary chins for pelts, BUT I also do chinchilla rescue. When you see a chinchilla that hasn’t been bathed in months, and the cage not cleaned in twice that, they are not given hay and are eating guinea pig pellets, or whatever else is on sale, sometimes they have water, but hey “Fluffy” LOVES to run in their ball (the little plastic one with no air circulation in it). When you see this you know why it would be better to be a ranch chinchilla. Like I said I don’t want to see MY chinchillas there, but there are worse things for a chinchilla to be…. I think it the bad pet owners (obviously not you! Look at all those loving pics!) were given as much bad publicity as the pelters maybe we would have less of them.
Rivendell, fair enough. Not all ranchers are equally inhumane, but pelting is barbaric, regardless of how it takes place. My goal — and the Matilde Mission’s goal — is to encourage “change by choice” among pelters and transition folks to responsible, loving, pet ownership. And yes, there are many bad owners. (Many chins die in Southern California every summer because they overheat — owners can’t or won’t pay for AC).
Soooooooooooooo cynical. You sit at your computer with leather shoes, purses, wallets, jackets, seats, and steering wheels but you care so much about chinchillas what about the cows? You guys are a bunch of hypocrites!
I admit I have some leather items. I try to be environmentally conscious (and tell the designers they can go screw themselves and their overpriced wares) by buying second-hand clothing.
If I buy clothes new (rare), it is from an outlet source.
Food is a neccessity, for most people, fur is not. It’s one thing to kill for food and use the byproducts rather than wasting them, it’s another to kill for fashion.
I’m trying to figure out where your from. I typed Chinchilla something new zealand and this came up. Saw a title “chinchilla coat” and knew I had to come in. Am pleased you don’t support fur breeding/pelting because I would have gone off my rocker. But you are wrong, sorry to say, I have the most amazing chins on gods green earth - you could be second though, but it’s my lot that hold that title :) And all this chat about leather - I don’t buy anything with leather and nor do I have sheepskins (very common in NZ). The Matilde Mission’s goal - is that in relation to chincare and Sally there? I’ve been working closely with Sally to bring in Breeding Standards over here and she’s been a huge help. Anyway - give your lovely wee girl a scratch/rub on the chin from me and my babies. Oh and for the record - I’m against fur breeding/pelting and will never own anything with real fur or even fake fur - my choice.
anybody that would kill any little helples animal is a sick freak anyways.how would you like it if someone wanted your skin and was willing to kill you for it?i don’t think you would like it very well.now would you?people really don’t need the big fur coats like they think they do.if we keep killing off animals then we will have no pets or anything.GROW UP PEOPLE!stop killing off animals like they have no life like they were just put on earth for you to kill.there not and i think you all need to stop treating them like they are.i’m pretty sure that if someone walked up to you and said “hey let my have your dog or cat so i can go make a fur coat out of it.”i don’t think you would be willing to give it up.if anyone has watched the little video on how they kill chinchillas you would feel a little uneasy.so give it up eople and stop killing these little animals.