HUMANELY KILLED FURRED ANIMALS.
I am very grateful for your correspondent " Kitty Ritson's" letter. I have for long wanted to know if it would not be possible to buy furs that are certified to be those of animals humanely killed. Dealers for the most part seem entirely ignorant of the history of the skins they sell, but if all women who can afford to buy furs would insist that they should know, and would definitely refuse to buy any that have been procured by the terrible and protracted torture that trapping entails, both wholesale and retail dealers would be obliged to meet the demand. It should not be so difficult in these days as many of the rarer animals have nearly been trapped out of existence, and, farms for breeding them having been started, there is no reason that they should not be killed with the minimum of terror and pain.—CELIA CONGREVE, Milton Lockhart, Carluke, N.B.
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