Somewhere in the world a trap snaps on an animal every 3 seconds.
While you are reading this line, at least three animals are trapped in a snare trap. It is all for vain humans.
Every second an animal dies for Fur. 60,000,000 animals every year.

The human race did, and will continue to do, anything to control animals and use them for his comfort and his luxury lifestyle. If people are still wearing furs, what hope is there that some day humans will see milk as rape, baby steal, extreme exploitation and murder, if humans are not even beyond, the so basic step, of not wearing someone’s fur?

Every year about 60 million animals are murdered for fur. It is estimated that about 10 million of them are violently trapped in the wild, brutally killed, skinned and turned into fur coats each year.

The most common method of trapping is the use of "steel-jaw leghold trap". When an unsuspecting animal puts his foot on the trap, heavy iron jaws snap it, slashing skin and breaking bones. While causing extensive injury, leghold traps are not designed to kill an animal outright, but rather to restrain it until the trapper returns. If trapped animals do not die from blood loss, infection, hypothermia, dehydration, gangrene or predators that come along and see an easy meal, they will be killed by the trappers which try to kill them without damaging their fur, by strangling, beating, or stomping them to death. A common stomping method is for the trapper to stand on the animal's rib cage, concentrating his weight near the heart until it stops.

Two examples of murder tools are heavy iron pipe, about 18 to 24 inches long, or an axe handle. Animals are stricken twice, first time to render them unconscious and the second to render them either dead or comatose. To ensure death, the trapper is pinning the head with one foot and stand on the chest of the animal with the other foot for several minutes, afterwards he touches the eye or mouth of the animal with the striking tool and watch for any reaction. If there is no reaction, he cuts off the animal's hind legs and yanks his skin and fur out

Although the initial impact of the trap causes injury it is the attempts to escape the trap that cause major damage. The trapped animals, in desperate attempt to escape, rip their flesh, break bones, sever muscles and tendons and even chew off the trapped limb.

The gnawing off of a limb is so common that it has been given the term 'wringing off' by trappers. Up to 1 out of every 4 trapped animals escape by chewing off their own feet, only to die later from blood loss, fever, gangrene, or predation.

Many animals also break many of their teeth while trying to release from the trap.

Animals that did not manage to escape from the trap, will suffer for hours or even days, before the trappers arrive. Trapped mothers are desperate to return to their young who are doomed to starvation.

To lure fur bearers into the trap, trappers employ any manipulation they can think of including audio recordings of a crying animal previously ensnared, like a fox caught in a steel-jaw trap.

Other commonly used trap is the wire snare which is made of a cable shaped like a noose. When animals go through the noose, they are caught. The more they struggle the tighter the noose becomes. If the animals are caught around the neck they will slowly suffocate. Death can take up to six minutes.

Because predators mutilate many trapped animals before the trappers return, pole traps are often used. A pole trap is a form of steel-jaw trap that is set in a tree or on a pole. Animals caught in these traps are hoisted into the air and left to hang until they die or until the trapper arrives to kill them.

Another appalling way in which animals are caught is by the use of leg traps set under water. These “drowning sets” are frequently used to catch animals such as beavers and muskrats. Beavers are well adapted to aquatic life, and so it can take them 20 minutes to drown in which they suffer from the striking and clamping force of the jaws, as well as the panic of being held under water by a violent, mysterious force. If they are able to drag themselves out of the water while they are still trapped, the struggle can last for days.

No animal is safe from these non-selective traps. Between one and 10 "non-target" animals are caught in traps for every single target animal. These animals are considered "trash" by the industry.

As terribly violent as the traps are, most of the furbearers exploited in the fur industry, are doomed to even worse lives.
80% of all the fur comes from farms. As with other intensive-confinement animal farms, the methods used on fur farms are designed to maximize profits, always at the expense of the animals' needs.

They are kept in the most atrocious conditions.
Foxes, who normally roam over 2,000 to 15,000 acres, are imprisoned in a tiny cage often crammed 4 in a cage measuring 25 square feet. These conditions make it very difficult for them even to stand. Beavers are forced to live on cement floors instead of water. Minks are solitary animals by nature, but in the farms, they are forced to live in extremely close contact with other animals.
Such an intensive confinement leads to high-level of stress, self-mutilation and even cannibalism.

The stress is so high in the fur farms that killing and injuring cubs by their own mothers is common. It is estimated that 10 – 20% of female foxes kill their cubs at some point in fur farms. Females of lower social status are more prone to kill their cubs and they have poorer nursing success. In China, the cub mortality exceeds 50%. The dead cubs have bite marks on their bodies, often with the skull crushed, or half eaten.

Artificial insemination is common in fur farm. It is mostly used to produce crosses between blue and silver foxes as their natural mating times do not coincide. The systematic rapes often result in ripping of genitals membranes and thousands of deaths duo to lack of hygiene.

An eyewitness tells: "Fur farms are contaminated and piles everywhere with excrement. This causes many diseases for the animals, including pneumonia, wet belly disease, and nursing disease. Flies, lice, and flees infect the cages. The smell of decay permeate the place, animals with severe injuries don't get any medical care"
He continues: "Foxes and minks are pacing in endless circles, crazy from the confinement. Row after row of tiny wire-mesh cages, stacked four high and about 25 in a row, chinchillas peering watchfully through the wires, a rack of pelts hanging on a far wall, and except for a radio playing softly in one corner of the room, a morgue-like hush".

After seven months of imprisonment the animals are murdered. Usually this is done in November when the fur is at its peak quality. Various violent and brutal methods are used for killing. One of them is breaking the necks of the animals with bare hands.

Another common method of killing is by gassing. Relatively big animals like foxes are removed from their cages and placed individually in a killing box, filled with the gas. Smaller animals like squirrels and minks are gassed with a cup filled with gas. Most animals screech, defecate, urinate, and exude the contents of the anal scent glands. The suffocation is slow and painful.
An alternative is the injection of a lethal drug, often performed by ranchers with no medical training.
Another method is to connect a car exhaust to a box containing a live animal, and wait for him to die. This often only stuns the animals and therefore they are skinned alive.

Electrocution is commonly used for killing foxes. The apparatus consists of a battery, a metal bar and a clamp. The clamp is fastened around the muzzle of the fox. The bar is inserted into the animal's anus, a switch is flicked, and the electric current electrocutes the fox, causing an intense pain of a heart attack while they are fully conscious. The animals are literally burned from the inside.

Each year thousands of Canadian fishermen take part in a mass competitive commercial slaughter of seals. Each sealer charges across the ice floes in an effort to kill as many seal pups (since their fur is still white and so more desirable) as he can before someone else gets them. The baby seals, who don’t know how to swim yet and so can’t run into the water, are totally helpless in front of the sealer who swings his heavy club and starts beating them on the face, until he smashes their fragile skull. The sealer tries to hit the babies’ face as near as possible to the nose, in order not to damage the "prestige" white fur.

Many seals do not die right away. An analysis by a panel of veterinarians showed that about 40% of the seals are actually skinned alive. Many seals are shot while they are in the water, and some escape severely wounded, to die later.

In the last few years there is a decrease in the Canadian seal hunt, resulting from the EU ban and the Russia ban of hunting baby seals younger than one year old. However, there are two terrible aspects of this seemingly good news. The fact that there is a decrease in the demand for the biggest animals of the industry and an increase in the general industry means that more animals will suffer. The second is that as always when an exploitive industry is diminishing in one place in the world it gets bigger in another. In the fur industry’s case it is Namibia which has become the second largest commercial seal hunt country after Canada and where the seals’ exploitation is particularly cynical. Between July and November the seals are brutally hunted (According to Namibian regulations, pups must be clubbed on the head, and then their hearts pierced with a knife to bleed them out) in the early mornings and after 10:00 A.M the survivors are presented to tourists as part of the ecotourism industry .

A well-organized fur trade spends millions of dollars every year to glamorize fur coats and to mask their real price – pain.

The campaign against fur was once considered to be the most successful campaign ever by the animal rights movement.
After almost a decade of being branded politically incorrect, fur is back in fashion. The fur industry comeback since 2003 is an irrefutable evidence of the sole significance of trends in human behavior and public political views.
It is not empathy, rationality, concern and compassion that dictate humans’ behavior.
It is trends. Let the only one solution be the last trend... Literally.