HUMANELY KILLED FURRED ANIMALS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
am much interested in the correspondence re humanely killed fur animals. If people could have seen the agony that I saw in Canada they would never wear a trapped fur. Wretched foxes, who had been in a trap for several days, caught by a paw and with their eyes full of terror and pain. It is a terrible indictment of a civilization that has abolished bear-baiting, that women should wear furs which have been procured through such suffering. People cry out against vivisection, but these trapped animals are made to suffer un- speakably just to gratify women's vanity.
I am writing to the Army and Navy Stores, drawing atten- tion to your generous offer ; for it is a cause which every decent-minded woman should take up.—I am, Sir, &c., KITTY RITSON.
Frittenden, Fairinile Avenue, Cobham, Surrey.
[We have not yet had any response from the big firms, Messrs. Selfridge, Harrods, &c., to our offer in this connexion. We therefore repeat that we will give a free page advertise- ment in the Spectator to the firm which is the first to obtain, and sell as such, furs from humanely killed animals.—En. Spectator.]
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