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http://www.animalsaviors.org/index.html sign the petition, save a little furry life!!!
- Feb 19, 2009 at 12:49 PM
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Why We Must Campaign
The Animal Saviors Awareness Campaign is dedicated to stop more than 2,000,000 cats, dogs and other animals being brutally and callously skinned alive in China every year.
The animals are caged in cramped conditions, often fed on starvation rations or on the skinned carcasses of other cats and dogs.
Prior to skinning, they are dragged from their cages. The skinners hit them with a heavy metal rod or wooden club to break their necks or backs leaving them incapacitated and unable to defend themselves. Smaller animals are sometimes picked up by a hind leg and swung against the cage or the ground to achieve the same result. In most cases the animals are alive and conscious during the whole skinning process, squealing and yelping in agony in full view of the other terrified animals waiting in their cages for their turn.
In some cases the dogs may be led to a place of execution, where they are chained together or in a row. Each dog watches the horror metered out to the others, listening to their agonised squeals and frantically struggling to get away. When finally a man or woman walks towards it, rod or club in hand, the struggling terrified animal leaves no doubt that it knows exactly what is about to happen.
When incapacitated, the animal is usually strung up by a back leg or held down by a skinner wearing heavy boots for protection, standing or kneeling on its neck, to stop it from wriggling away. After incisions are made in the fur with a knife, the skinner forces his or her fingers under the fur and taking care to ensure that the whole pelt comes away in one piece, rips the pelt from its writhing agonised body. A bullet or lethal injection is too expensive and the skinners say it’s easier to rip an intact fur from a live warm body rather than one that is dead and inert. The ghastly task is completed when the helpless animal is entirely stripped of its fur – even the fur from its head is torn away.
The skinned animal is then cast aside to die in shock and excruciating agony.
This is probably the worst case of mass cruelty inflicted on helpless animals in the history of our so called “civilised” world. 2,000,000 cats and dogs skinned alive every year translates to 5,479 per day or 228 helpless animals suffering this unimaginable horror every hour of every day of every year – year after year.
The callous indifference shown by the Chinese government towards the suffering of the animals is inconceivable and completely unacceptable..
Cats and dogs have no animal rights in China and they never will unless we – the people who care – fight for those rights on their behalf.
If we don’t, the alternative is too horrible to contemplate.
What Happens to the Fur?
The fur pelts are sold to manufacturers, either exported or sold locally in China. The manufacturers, whether in China or elsewhere, use the fur to make a wide range of products; anything that may be made wholly or partially from the fur including fur coats, gloves, boots, handbags and other apparel and accessories, souvenirs and children’s toys.
The manufacturers export and sell their fur products to wholesalers and retailers. Eventually the fur products find their way to retail shops around the world and are sold to unsuspecting shoppers.
The Chinese traders have become expert in disguising the fur pelts and products – often dying the fur and always mislabelling it as rabbit or some other fur; even faux fur. Anything but cat or dog fur. Would you buy a toy for your children labelled “Labrador Fur” or “Siamese Kitten Fur”? I think not.
Shoppers are easily duped because unfortunately expert examination is required to determine the true nature of the fur and sometimes the only way to be certain is to conduct expensive laboratory testing. There is no other way to really know what you are buying.
Manufacturers in China are certainly aware of the true nature of the fur and when exporting their products, disguise and mislabel them. Most manufacturers outside China are probably ignorant of the true nature of the fur, but sadly, some know exactly what they are buying. Not only do they turn a blind eye they also deliberately mislabel the fur products to hide the true identity of the fur.
Any fur product whether “Made in China” or made in any other country is suspect and should not be bought. The safest bet: Don’t buy any fur or any product made wholly or partially with fur. You never know.
Kill the Demand for Fur Products
Make a pledge today to never again buy any product made wholly or partially with fur.
The trade in cat and dog fur flourishes because we create demand for the products by buying them. If we stop buying, we destroy that demand. If there is no demand for fur products, the Chinese traders will be forced out of business.
But remember, it’s not just a question of not buying cat and dog fur. It’s a question of not buying any fur whatsoever. If you think you are buying rabbit or fox or some other fur, you may in fact be buying cat or dog fur. You just don’t know. The only way to be certain is not to buy any fur. The risk is far too high. Just remember that if you buy a fur product you are encouraging another dog or cat to be skinned alive.
Some, but not all countries, prohibit the import of cat and dog fur products. Despite this, Chinese traders openly brag about how easy it is to fool the authorities by disguising and mislabelling the fur products. Customs officers cannot easily detect the true origin of the fur. Not many are trained in detecting cat and dog fur and to be sure it takes expensive laboratory testing. Not many get tested. Most are allowed through based on the certification and labelling.
Another way to kill demand is to educate retailers. Most retailers would not stock and sell fur products if they knew they are unwittingly aiding and abetting in the skinning of live cats and dogs. So, every time you see a fur product for sale in a retail store, tell the retailer and the staff of the dangers of selling fur products and refer them to www.animalsaviors.org. If you are happy to send us an email to info@animalsaviors.org with the email address, business name and if available, the name of the business owner or manager, we’ll send information about the cat and dog fur trade to the business.
What Will Our Campaign Do?
Because most people don’t know the horrific facts about the Chinese fur trade, our Campaign is designed to take the facts to the world and to gather supporters from every country, including China.
As a first step, we have created this website, www.animalsaviors.org, to get the message around the world as soon as possible.
Next we will devote a large part of our energies to publicise the website and encourage people everywhere to visit it.
We will achieve this by running a series of events.
Solo Global Sail – the Challenge is a worldwide event designed to attract international, national, regional and local media attention via television, radio, newspapers and magazines. That media attention will be used to publicise the Campaign and the website. Whilst more and more sailors are sailing yachts around the world, the reality is that there has never been an animal activist in his seventies prepared to sail a tiny 21 feet yacht around the world to draw attention to the plight of the animals. Both the yacht and the sailor are assured of getting a lot of media coverage. The yacht will clearly display our website address www.animalsaviors.org. Every time a picture of the yacht appears you’ll see the website address. And, every article about and interview of the aged sailor will provide an opportunity to publicise our Cause and the website address.
In addition during The Challenge the yacht will be involved in a number of events in the countries that it is visiting, the first being the Animal Saviors Australian Circumnavigation commencing on 1 June 2008.
The uworldweb Schools Competition is a series of regional and national competitions in which schools compete to design the best animal rights website. The competition will publicise our Cause to students in Years 8 to 12 in schools everywhere, their parents and teachers.. It’s also educational, helps to develop character, leadership, teamwork and an understanding and compassion for animals.
There will also be various Events designed to attract large numbers of people to attend and sign our Petition.
For our Campaign to be successful it will be necessary to raise sufficient Campaign Funds to ensure that our Aims are achieved. Also, we intend to construct and operate animal shelters to house and care for the animals that we are successful in releasing.
We propose to raise the necessary funds through Cause Related Marketing and various other fund raising events and competitions.
We will never lose sight of out Aims and will not stop until we witness the abolition of the cat and dog fur trade in China and the abolition of the sale and use of cat and dog fur in every other country.
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I saw a video of this awhile ago, and it make me so nauseous and SO angry.
I agree that animal cruelty is wrong. I do want to ask a question, which is completely said with no nastiness at all(just wanted that in there, since you can't hear my tone in writing! LOL) Do you think the cruelty these animals are subjected worse, the same, or better than the cruelty humans inflict on one another. I am just asking because cruelty to animals is truly awful, I agree, but the life of an animal, any animal is not as valuable as the life of a human. Just my two cents. Thanks for letting me contribute! And yes, I will sign the petitions.
UGH Awful. Unfortunately just as many pets are dying every day here in the United States because people refuse to spay and neuter. They may not all be skinned alive or tortured but they're dying just the same. So if this story outrages you as it should than compare it to our situation here in the US and FIX YOUR PETS!
Yes, obvioulsly I think human cruelty is just as bad. What human being , especially a mother wouldn't?!!? I understand you didn't mean anything harsh by it but I have to wonder why you asked. The only thing I can think of is because I've put up a couple post about animals and not about child neglect. I haven't done this because I don't care about children. I have done this because a lot more people are aware of child sex slavery and trade then they are aware of what's going on to dogs, cats, ect. in this and other countries. You also see way more journals on human cruelty then animals so I'm just trying to spread the word. 
If you look up child abuse post you will see that I have left many a comment on those post with suggestions and such. Also, one thing to consider is that is a proven fact that people who abuse animals are way more likely to abuse humans then those who don't!!!
No hard feeling though, just wondered why you'd ask that...
Oh I am so sorry you thought I was being nasty or thought you didn't care! That was never my intention! I feel so awful that I hurt your feelings and I am sincerely sorry. I asked because there are many people out there who place the lives and rights of animals above those of humans, equating animal cruelty as being on the same level as a human being hurt or murdered. I, wrongly, was using your post to get that message out. I am sorry and I will understand completely if you delet my reply because I used your post to make a related point. I am soooo sorry I upset you. Please forgive me.
That's ok mama. I do think that people who torture and kill animals should be given the same punishment as those who do it to humans,but, I don't think they should be held above humans. Also, like I said before.... there are very few sick twisted people that do this to animals that don't either already do it to humans or will very soon. You know how they call pot a gateway drug to other harsher drugs? Well, abusing animals is like a gateway to human torture, so, wouldn't it be better to put them in prison before they harm someone if they haven't already and just haven't been caught yet? They are God's creation just as much as we are. Like I said before though no hard feelings.
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