Clothes Made From Rabbit Fur??

[Die Fledermaus]

My bun, Poppy, is shedding. And I was struck by how very silky soft the fur is. Could it be spun into cloth? Anyone ever hear of clothes made from rabbit fur? Seriously. (Hopefully, only from trimmed live rabbits! Sheep are sheared, right?!).).

I found this article online:

>> Kentucky: Fur Protestors Ask Shoppers to Boycott Local Store

Staff Report

Saturday, February 12, 2005

Fur protestors lined Park Avenue in Paducah Saturday hoping to convince shoppers not to buy fur for their Valentine. Local protesters from People for the Ethical Treatment for Animals are speaking out against the retail store Wet Seal, who has a store in the Kentucky Oaks Mall.

Protestors say using fur in clothing is cruel and they are urging shoppers to boycott Wet Seal because the store won't stop selling clothes made from rabbit fur. NewChannel 6 has learned that Wet Seal stores across the county are actually suffering from fallen sales, and many are closing shop <<

Looks like clothes CAN be made from it, but it also looks like they are killing rabbits. At the Bronx Zoo they feed the Siberian Tigers rabbit meat; I don't care for that either, and will tell them so next time I am there.

[Hamsters82]

I think it's awful when an animal is killed for its fur, but if you're just shearing the animal or taking its fur away after it just sheds I think it's fine.

And I hate to argue with you, Tom, but I think you shouldn't do anything with the zoo. The Tigers have to eat meat somehow. They're predators. If you're going to protest that, why don't you protest the deers in the lion's cage or the rats in the snake cages? The animals need to eat, they're predators, meat is on their menu.

[Die Fledermaus]

That doesn't answer the question: WHY RABBITS?? Yea, I'd feel better if it was cattle or chicken, for several obvious reasons.

[Hamsters82]

Maybe rabbits cost less.

[Die Fledermaus]

[Hamsters82]

I meant maybe the cost less than from buying a dead deer or anything else.

[Die Fledermaus]

I know what you meant. I don't see why they'd be cheaper than a big animal raised as food. I have to ask next time I am up there. I wish I had had the time to go to the Bronx Zoo when the Butterfly Zone was still going strong - this week, maybe, but I MUST see the USS Intrepid Air-Space Museum (on an aircraft carrier) as it is disappearing for almost two years for major renovations. I have to see the planetarium and natural history museum before the kids start going on school field trips later this month.

[Andrea]

Rabbits multiply so fast and are inexpencive... so ya they would make a good meal for a zoo creature.
When i was a child my gradparents raised rabbits, chickens and geese. They lived in the bush, and well all those animals had their job, they were not pets.
They don't need to do that anymore, they live in the city now.

As for spinning the fur, i don't know, maybe it's to short?
If you were a fly fisherman you could tie your own flies with the fur, my Dad used to (Even used our dogs! lol)

[Die Fledermaus]

Don't know how long fur has to be to be spun.

In World War Two in Britain some bureaucrat had the dumb idea of getting normal average families to raise bunnies. . . FOR FOOD. Imagine a family of a dad, mom, and two or three kids, normal folks, having to take a cute defenseless bun they raised, SLAUGHTER it, SKIN it, BUTCHER it, COOK it, and then EAT it. Of course almost no one could, and the kids (and some adults) were traumatized. Bad for the morale. Idea cancelled.

[geisha]

i dont support the creulty to animals and using of there fur to make coats and things