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| You think you look glamourous walking around in your new fur coat - try walking through a fur warehouse first... | |
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| OK - call me insane, I used to be a vegetarian and was an animal rights activist for about four years. So why the hell, my friends asked me, did I accept a job at a fur auction company?
I was desperate to get out of my miserable job, and wanted something different - it was the strangest year of my life.
The first thing I noticed on my first day of work was that there was a strange smell in the office. | |
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| Walking through the warehouse for the first time was a real treat. They have racks and racks of hanging animal pelts. I couldn't stand looking at the foxes (they reminded me of cats) or the coyotes (they look just like big dogs). I started having nightmares. | |
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| A couple of times, trappers actually sent in dog hides (I guess the dogs got stuck in their traps) but the company alerted officials. Several people there expressed their shock and outrage that something like that could occur (considering the business we were in, they seemed pretty hypocritical to me). I also couldn't help wondering how many other dogs or cats fell victim to these traps every day. | | |
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Just before ringing in the year 2000, I was going through racks ofdiscounted calendars, and became totally freaked out by one withpictures of wolves in the wild. All I could see was the racks ofwolf skins hanging in the warehouse at work. The damp, moldy smellof their carcasses haunted me. I felt sick to my stomach with guilt.I knew I had to get out of there...
+ Rebecca +
Who used to wear a gross rabbitfur coat in college.
(It was the same colour as Bugs Bunny.)
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