Comments on: Chinchilla coats

By: nikki

nikki — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:34:54 +0000

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.

By: Lycia

Lycia — Fri, 26 May 2006 23:23:40 +0000

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.

By: Catty

Catty — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:04:35 +0000

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.

By: mike

mike — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:14:12 +0000

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!

By: Hugo

Hugo — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:01:13 +0000

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).

By: Rivendell Chinchilla

Rivendell Chinchilla — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:29:56 +0000

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.

By: Jubbah

Jubbah — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 15:04:28 +0000

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.

By: Valerie Moll

Valerie Moll — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 02:53:45 +0000

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.

By: lee

lee — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 00:20:41 +0000

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/

By: Chinfreak

Chinfreak — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:55:12 +0000

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.