Not to step on any toes here, but if it looks like a thread that's going to bother you, then don't look (this is the Dog House). I appreciate it when people post "the blood and gore", because it gives me incentive and knowledge on how to fight for the animals and give them a voice. People can speak out against animal cruelty all day long, but until they actually experience or witness what is really happening, their words really mean nothing because what backing or proof do they have. Until I saw this video, I had no idea the extent of the cruelty in the fur business. And until I got into animal rescue, I had no idea the extent of animal abuse and pet overpopulation. It gives me the knowledge I need to "preach" to the public about responsible pet ownership and spaying/neutering.

I know this is a family board and a lot of youngsters may see these threads, but IMO why shelter them from reality just because it's not pleasant to watch? (If their parents don't want them to see it, then they need to make their kids get off the computer and go outside to play like we used to do before the internet.) I say the younger the better because kids need to be aware of the kinds of cruelty we as humans are inflicting upon innocent animals for the sake of our greed. They are young and impressonable, so why not impress upon them what's going on in the world so that maybe their generation will grow up realizing that's not how they want things to be. Kids who have everything censored, grow up "not wanting to see or hear" the bad things going on around them, so the bad things go unnoticed and they keep happening. I understand those who have seen and heard and don't want to see it again, but at least they are doing something about it. Then there are those who don't want to see at all and don't want anyone else to see. Nothing would ever get accomplished or change if everyone closed their eyes to only the bad things going on in the world. I wish it was all peaches and cream, but this world sucks thanks to mankind and it's never going to get better if we don't look at what we are doing, no matter how young or old we are.