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The Gloves Are Off!

Grab the Paper Bags-Here Come the Fur Hags
It's winter-time for those fur-clad cavepeople to come lumbering back onto the streets-a scene that makes as many people shiver from disgust as from the cold. It's also time for people who care about animals to shift the anti-fur movement into high gear and take any fur hag to task.

Our message this winter is this: "Fur-wearers beware!" After 9/11, PETA temporarily suspended its confrontational anti-fur tactics out of consideration for an already shell-shocked public. But now the gloves are off, and the essential accessory for fur-wearers has become a paper bag over their heads to hide their faces from the horrified expressions on ours.

Minks and Chinchillas Agree: There Is No "Comfort" in Fur Gorements
Not surprisingly, given their cold-heartedness, furriers took advantage of a country shaken by the tragedy of 9/11 to promote their cruelly obtained merchandise as "comfort wear." While Americans slowly recover from 9/11, the attack on animals packed into fur farms or dying in traps continues. Minks, foxes, beavers, chinchillas, and others continue to be separated from their families and companions, continue to frantically tug at their broken limbs trapped in steel-jawed traps. On fur farms, they still neurotically pace in their tiny cages before anal electrocution, suffocation, or neck-breaking painfully robs them of their precious lives.

Speaking Up for Foxes in Boxes
PETA is putting everyone involved in this barbaric industry on notice. Fur-wearers, manufacturers, farmers, trappers, designers, and magazine editors who promote fur, beware: We're not going to take the fur plague lying down!

In a stunning bid to show consumers that behind every fur coat, collar, or cuff was a living animal, Girlfriend star Persia White held the body of a skinned fox in a new ad for PETA titled "Here's the Rest of Your Fur Coat," which Persia unveiled at a demonstration outside the New York Metropolitan Opera's opening night gala. PETA's anti-fur brigade greeted notoriously "furry" operagoers with the bodies of skinned foxes, reminding fur-wearers of the sensitive, timid animals who died for their hideous attire.

Fur Wearers Can't Hide: Pelt Them for PETA
Here's how you can help. No matter who you are, no matter how shy or inhibited you are, always confront people wearing fur. Whether you say, "How did you get the blood out of your coat?" or, "I hope that's fake," or even yell, "Fur Shame!," no one who cares about animals should let fur-wearers get away with perpetuating this torturous industry.

Cat got your tongue? Hand them one of PETA's new cards that say, "You look pretty in fur … pretty ugly." Or issue them a new PETA fashion police anti-fur citation. Their fine can be a donation to PETA. Organize or join a PETA anti-fur rally in your area. You can find plenty of ideas on our web site for activists. We would love to have you join us!

Right Now

• Right now, there are young, confused, hungry foxes in a den crying for their mother, who will never come home.

• Right now, there are snow-covered raccoons shivering in cramped, exposed wire cages on fur farms, where they'll spend the rest of their sad, empty lives.

• Right now, thousands of frantic minks run in circles inside their tiny cages day after day, year after year.

• Right now, an alarmed coyote claws furiously at a steel-jaw leghold trap that bites down on his life-long mate, her bones crushed, her body limp.

• Right now, a caged wolf sends out her last broken-spirited howl to her canine family hiding among the trees.

• Right now, an inquisitive, brave lynx furiously fights the suffocating grasp of a metal trap that clamps down on his neck. He frantically claws the merciless trap but quickly weakens. His fight will soon be over. Your fight has just begun.