TORTURING A SILVER FOX
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—I have just received a report from Canada of a piece of trapping cruelty which seems unbelievable :
" A trapper, in the region of Quebec. caught a young fox by the hind leg in a steel trap and, taking it home alive, hung it up on a line from which he had suspended other skins to be photo- graphed. The photographer protested at the cruel action of the trapper, and said that he could not take the photo with the fox struggling so much. The trapper then fetched another heavy double trap and sprung it on the fox's front legs, which pulled it nearly straight, so that it could hardly move. The photographer then took the photo, as he wanted to send it to the Humane Society. The local society, however, could take no action."
I have seen the photo, showing the fox hanging head downwards stretched between the two traps, and gasping in agony, with the trapper and also two small boys looking on. I have now brought this matter to the notice of the Trappers' Associations, both in America and Canada. It is true that this happened some time ago ; but if any further inducement is necessary to dissuade women from wearing trapped furs,
which have been done to death in agony, and to make them insist on buying only those named on the white list, this incident surely should suffice.
This is the kind of thing the Fur Crusade is out to fight ; and I hope that other papers, not only in England here, but all over the world, will give publicity to this letter. There are one hundred and eighty-five thousand of my leaflets " Horrors of Fur Trapping " already in circulation, and these now include the White List of Airs, which may be considered humanely killed.—I am, Sir, &c., Founder of the Fur Crusade.
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