[kaysbaby@sbcglobal.net]

I just saw a terrible thing on the news about china sending dog coats to us miss label they showed pictures of dogs being mistreated and getting ready to skin them OMG i am still crying these dogs look just like are family dogs please people do not buyany fur coat from foreign country they even mislabel fake fur when it is dog . They showed a shep. being put in a bag except for his head they did not want to ruin his coat then they hit him over the head OMG I am so upset and crying Why do people do this. I have to stop now and hug my dogs

[Wolfie]

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I read last year that these cute realisitc little dog and kitten figurines you see in shops are made in China and are really covered with cat skins/hair. Buying these items creates a market for them. Awful, isn't it. I have mentioned this to a couple of friends that were considering buying the figurines. Hopefully, through forums like this we can educate people. Now I am going to go and hug my two dogs.

[TravisR]

im not aposed to having a coat made out of dog hair but that sort of treatmant is unacceptable.

[RonE]

Originally Posted by TravisR

im not aposed to having a coat made out of dog hair but that sort of treatmant is unacceptable.

Are you suggesting there is an ACCEPTABLE way to make a dog fur coat? We're not talking about sheering sheep here. There is no way for a human to wear the coat without taking it off the dog, and a skinned dog won't live long.

[CrzyBritNAmerica]

Yeah I am agreeing with ronE here...do you know how they make dog coats? They really aren't talking about just shaving them down to get the hair. Especially in China, where thay do eat dogs and have little respect for people, let alone any animals.

[kaysbaby@sbcglobal.net]

yes you should of had to watch the horror unfold before my eyes i am still upset NO DOG Or animal should be treated like that some of these pets and yes I call them pets were not even dead just knock out before they started skining I still see the terror in that pups eyes after the first hit I cannot even talk about this any more makes me to upset any one who would wear one or have no problem with this is no dog lover sorry

[rizzo]

That's terrible! Ugh, makes me sick to my stomach. Poor dogs. I have no respect for those people--how do they sleep at night knowing what they do for a living?

[RonE]

I'm not trying to condone any of this, but it's important to remember that there are cultures and countries where dogs are mostly livestock and not family pets. The idea of eating dog meat and making dog fur coats is appalling to us but in places where it is common, it isn't much different from what we do with our cattle. I know plenty of people who believe that is equally unacceptable, though most of us don't keep cattle as family pets.

Imagine, though, if you lived in a place where dogs as pets are something of a novelty.

In this country we have our own ways of exploiting and mistreating dogs for commercial purposes.

[mscar22]

Originally Posted by RonE

I'm not trying to condone any of this, but it's important to remember that there are cultures and countries where dogs are mostly livestock and not family pets. The idea of eating dog meat and making dog fur coats is appalling to us but in places where it is common, it isn't much different from what we do with our cattle. I know plenty of people who believe that is equally unacceptable, though most of us don't keep cattle as family pets.

this is true however it should NEVER be acceptable in ANY culture to skin dogs alive, to crush a racoons head under your boot and to beat a dog, not till it dies, just till its still enough to skin it. its not right to jam dogs so tightly into cages their limbs snap or other dogs suffocate. that should NEVER be tolerated.

if it is accepted in other cultures to eat dog, then go for it. just do it humanley.
i heard about the chinese fur farm industry many years ago and it still disgusts me. i have seen videos in which a skinner dog is still conscious and actually puts its head up and look at the camera. and thats never right.

J.Lo, Beyonce, paris Hilton. they all wear fur, and Lopez sells it to.

[Chloef_2799]

It seems to me in countries like China, Japan India, anything goes. But you know what? They are different cultures and different beliefs etc. In India cows are sacred to Hindus and in Canada and the States we eat them like its going out of style. So think about the differences first and foremost between countries.
I am not and will never condone killing dogs, cats, horses, cows, sheep etc for food or clothes (I'm vegetarian), I think it is horrible and I hate to know that animals suffer so that people can benefit. And I think that what they do to animals in other countries is deplorable and barbaric. I don't push my views on other people however so I won't be going to these countries anytime soon to tell these people how disgusting and depraved I think some of them are. There are people like that right here in our own countries as well. There was a guy who lived a few counties over from me and he was thrown in jail because they discovered he was trying to control the feral cat population by trapping them and then tossing them into a pit with his dogs to be torn apart.
However I have heard of people from the UK, the US and Canada using dogs hair for coats (long haired dogs like shepherds, retreivers, collies, pyrnese, bernese mountain dogs etc). Check this out http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article....&in_page_id=34 or http://pages.webnet.qc.ca/chiens/scapin/no2b.htm Personally I don't have a problem with this kind of dog hair clothing. Kinda smelly though

[squirt1968]

Not far from where I live tjere are people who knit dog hair into sweaters not sure what breed they say they sheer them like sheep and then spin the hair into yarn