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Hot Weather Means Cold Storage for Fur (Published 1978)  The New York Timessource

By Zachariah Hughes The Iditarod, the annual thousand-mile sled-dog race across Alaska, starts with something in between a parade, a dog show and a wilderness carnival. The streets of downtown Anchorage fill with more than a thousand yapping huskies, tied to trucks, harnessed to sleds and fitted into trucks specially outfitted to haul dozens of […]

About 85 percent of the fur industry’s skins come from animals living captive in fur factory farms.1 These farms can hold thousands of animals, and their farming practices are remarkably uniform around the globe. As with other intensive-confinement animal farms, the methods used in fur factory farms are designed to maximize profits, always at the […]

Yukon Fur Real awarded innovation prize  Whitehorse Daily Starsource

Animal rights group PETA has released horrifying footage of animals who have been sickeningly abused as part of a new campaign against fur.In the video, which is narrated by singer Paloma Faith, foxes with skinless paws are seen being forced to live beside dead and decomposing cagemates.A mink with an untreated head wound – showing […]

A small and unique mammal calls the Western North Carolina mountains home. Although size can be deceiving, least weasels are known as fierce carnivores!Identified by their size, least weasels have long slender bodies, short tails, dark eyes and stubby ears. Their fur ranges from ginger to dark brown on top with a white underside. During […]

Erik J. Martin//August 2, 2017// Ferrets: Furry and Fun Erik J. Martin//August 2, 2017// The craze that made them household name critters may have died down from a few years ago, and they might not sell as solidly today as other small mammals in your store. But make no mistake: when it comes to cute […]

Hot toys 2018: Pooping unicorns, endless unboxing and matted fur balls  The Washington Postsource

The Morning News: Orange County’s Wolf Dogs, Five Years Later  chapelboro.comsource

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