Finland Fur Farm Found To Be Fattening Foxes. F’realz.

This makes me so mad.

I mean, yes, I appreciate the opportunity to alliterate a headline, but this is just sickening. According to the sourcelink, some undercover video has been recorded of how mistreated foxes are at a Finland fur farm. And you guys, it’s absolutely horrific. They’re breeding “monster foxes” which are just dangerously overweight foxes with roly poly skin, bloated 5 times their normal size so they’ll have more fur. Their eyes are all swollen and weepy, their feet are deformed – they’re a complete mess. And it’s purely so people can have fox fur stuff, which makes me nauseous.

Side story. When I was in the third grade, living in Kansas, I wrote to my then congressman John Hiler, to protest mean animal traps that severely injured animals without actually killing them. I remember being super impressed that I got a letter back from him promising to look into the issue. I was (and still am) a huuuuuge animal lover as a kid, and couldn’t wait to be old enough to make my own money to donate to animal causes. When I landed my first personnel (that’s what they called HR before they called it HR) job out of college, I worked in a temp agency that was located in a strip mall just a few doors down from a fancy fur store, and every now and then the UPS guy would deliver their packages to us because apparently fancy fur store employees took reeeeeally long lunches, and we’d be asked to hang onto their packages until they returned. One day, I took a bunch of stickers that I had gotten from the ASPCA and I covered one of the fur store’s packages with them. The stickers read “FUR SHAME” all over them.

A few days later? Cops came looking for me, questioned me about the box, and told me that the fur store insisted that the contents INSIDE THE BOX were damaged because of my stickers. I called bullsh*t, told the cops exactly what I’d done, and I said if the fur store didn’t want stickers on their packages anymore, to stop HAVING THEM DELIVERED TO US. Keep in mind, I was trembling and terrified, but because the fur store claim was so outrageous, I was all kinds of defiant too.

I guess the cops believed me and/or appreciated my viewpoint, and I never heard from them again. And we never got another package to hold for that DUMB FUR STORE which may or may not have been Elan Furs. (Narrator: It was.)

Anyway, back to the Finnish foxes. According to the Humane Society International UK, the footage of those unfortunately fat foxes is from what’s known as a “high welfare” farm, which ostensibly means that animal welfare is a super high priority.

Ummm…NO.

I’m not certain that anything much will be done about this, because unfortunately, there’s a huge market for fox fur, apparently, which makes me want to punch fox fur wearing people in the face. Do you not follow Juniper the Fox on Instagram? HOW CAN YOU WANT TO WEAR SUCH A PRECIOUS CREATURE?

Now, before you come after me for eating cows and wearing leather, etc. etc. just know that where I stand on this is that if you’re utilizing an entire animal for FOOD and its hide, I get it. That’s a reasonable thing. But breeding animals PURELY FOR HIGH FASHION? No. I hate it. Especially when they’re cute and furry and soft.

If you’re talking snake skin or crocodile skin or some other disgusting creature’s skin? Then high fashion the hell out of it, I say.

I’m Mock, and I’m a reptilist. 🙂