[Wylie's Mom]

Thanks to everyone who shared their thoughts - it's very validating. This hung over me all day - and will for weeks as it always does, like a virus that never really goes away. Then it will come up again whenever triggered by something new.

But, as I thought about it all day - and then just now after I read the posts - I DO see an army here. We don't carry guns but we do carry the power to do other things: donate, continue to foster awareness, avoid anything with fur. I am going to try to look at EACH and EVERY label - and do everything I can to not buy from China, period. Easy to say, I know, since practically everything for sale in the U.S. is made in China! Isn't that shameful? Farm everything out to China so we can buy cheap crap that is loaded w/ poisons, toxins, or borne of cruelty. Nice.

To answer the horrific question "why are they skinned (de-furred) alive" - it is to preserve the pelt and avoid getting blood on the pelt as much as possible. Which is absolutely horrible, bc it doesn't have to be that way. I do think for that German Shephard - that the man cut his femoral artery first, and I think he may have bled to death first. As for the creature who lifted his head at the end - furless, with bloody lashes - I think that was the grey dog - and he will haunt me forever and I love him and I won't ever forget his suffering. I'm sorry to be graphic, but I wanted to provide the answer.