Imagine being thrown in a jail cell, contaminated from your own urine and feces, pacing in endless circles, the confinement is driving you mad. A large wound in your right arm is not being treated and is forming gangrene. Someone is in a cage close to you sleeping and the hunger is driving you mad, so you decide to just take a nibble, eventually reverting to cannibalism to keep yourself alive. The seasons change and you are forced to endure blistering heat and the freezing cold of winter, totally exposed to all of the elements of nature. The heat makes you so sick that you eventually die in your own vomit from heat exhaustion.

Every year millions of animals are subjected to this kind of treatment. There are no laws protecting animals being raised as someone’s new fur coat. Minxes, foxes, chinchillas, coyotes, raccoons, rabbits, and many other animals spend their lives in tiny, disgusting cages.

Many animals are killed by genital electrocution, neck-breaking, and suffocation. Many times the case is that the animals are just stunned and are skinned alive.

During genital electrocution, a person connects an alligator clamp to her ear and her labia. Then the person may flip a switch or just plug the machine in and jolts of electricity are sent throughout the body. The current of the electricity may stop the heart, but does not always kill the animal.

It may just leave the body stiffened in a state of shock, but the pain never subsides. It is like a constant heart attack. Some fur farmers say they leave the clip on for one to two minutes, check to see if the heart is still beating, then reattach and try it again.

An easier and cheaper way to kill these animals would be neck snapping or popping. Fur farmers will wrap one hand around the neck and the other around the body, then jerk the animal’s vertebrate out of its socket. The breaking of the neck may take seconds, but the animal may still be moving and twitching for about five minutes.

A popular way to kill larger animals such as foxes, would be to stick a metal rod up their anus and one in their mouth and send 240 volts of electricity through the animal’s body. According to an investigator from PETA, when they went to a modern fox farm this is what they witnessed, “The fox’s eyes usually shut and the body goes rigid. There is a cracking sound and sometimes teeth break and fall out. Often the anal probe falls out. When this happens, the fox convulses, shakes, and often cries.” The animal may not loose consciousness for one to two minutes.

The barns that these fur farms run in are littered with skinned carcasses of animals all over the ground, where dead rotting animals are still in their cages. It is a fact the energy it takes to kill ranch-raised animals for fur is 60 times greater than the energy needed to produce faux fur.

Ed Gein was a serial killer who would skin women and wear their skin. Is there a difference in people wearing animal pelts to look beautiful and a man wearing women’s skin to look beautiful? To me, both are disgusting habits. The men and women who run these fur farms must think like a mass murderer. Both show no remorse for killing, it is in their minds just another part of life.

There is no choice in wearing fur. We all know the horrible things these animals go through, but people still wear it. They do not think about and do not care what these animals go through every year. Just thinking about the disgusting conditions and the grotesque things these animals feel makes me want to vomit and scream and cry

Fake fur is cheaper than real fur, looks the same, and is 100% cruelty free. We do not need to wear fur to survive anymore. We have other means of keeping ourselves warm.

My whole body shakes with anger when I see the pictures of foxes and chinchillas stuffed four to a cage. I have shed my tears and vented my hate, but I may not be able to make a difference in this fight. If the lives of these animals matter to any one reading this, and you would like more information on fur farms and would like to see pictures and videos visit

www.furisdead.com and educate yourselves.