Burlington Coat Factory

[yorkster]

Thanks for posting that Zippycat. I could not go beyond the first page, but it is good that people are made aware that this is going on.
My husband has a childhood stuffed animal that is a little donkey that he bought in Mexico. When we started dating, he had not ever been around cats before (he LOVES them now). After a few months or so, he said that his stuffed donkey felt and SMELLED like my cats! I had not seen it because it was packed somewhere, so he got it out and showed it to me- it looked like gray tabby, and I used to have one. It made me sick!

[wolflady]

Yikes!! I just don't get it!! Where do these people get these sick ideas anyway?? It's not like it's so cold out and there's nothing else available that they have to resort to the torture of animals for their furs. I feel just like purrley does...I think the fur 'coat' looks so much better on it's original owner...the animal...then it does on humans and it should stay on the animal.
Zippy, those animal 'statues' with the real animal fur is totally disturbing. I was especially traumatized because when I was in high school, a friend of mine gave me this cute little black white and tan fuzzy puppy figurine...and it has that fur on it!!!! I'm traumatized by that because I wouldn't support acts like these...and having a figurine like that makes me feel horrible!!! YIKES! NNNNNOooooooooooo!!

[zippy-kat]

I have so many mixed emotions.
I'm literally in tears right now. Of course this topic needs to be uncovered in order to get people to act on it. Yet it is SO HARDto digest all this information! In the technological world that we live in, it is hard to accept that this happens EVERYDAY and needlessly!

In the words of the great man, Leonardo da Vinci:

"The day will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals the way they now look upon the murder of men."

[Sudilar]

I did not look at the site. I'm upset enough by reading the replies here. It must be horrible. I cannot look.

[purrfectpaws]

I can't even think about going to the site because the pics will be imbedded in my mind forever. I know that you guys like to post these kinds of sites to make all aware but I can't do it......ahhhhhhhhhhhh

[Karen]

Sudilar and purrfectpaws, I will tell you that I, also, did not go to the site. I do not need to see the pictures to feel the horror. It is wrong, just plain wrong. If people want fuzzy things, they should use fake fur, that's all there is to it!

[mugsy]

I totally agree Karen. Either use fake fur or get the real thing to cuddle.

[4 feline house]

Decades ago, the man I was dating gave me the prettiest little owl figurines. I could never understand why my cats wouldn't leave them alone - in fact, they were eventually destroyed because no matter where I put them the cats always found them. When they were on their last legs a friend told me the cats were so crazy about them because the "feathers" were real rabbit fur. I was appalled! The man who gave them to me is now one of the Humane Society of North Texas's most prolific donors, so I'm sure by now he's learn his lesson about furry figurines, too.

[Pam]

In keeping with that thought Spencer, I wear a cat hair coat all the time!