The Expedition Shoppe, located at 369 Richmond Rd. in Ottawa ON, Canada continues to stock and sell hundreds of jackets trimmed with the fur of gruesomely trapped coyotes and live-skinned raccoon dogs.
When an animal steps on the spring of a steel-jaw trap, the trap’s jaws slam shut on the animal’s limb. The animal frantically struggles in excruciating pain as the trap cuts into his or her flesh, often down to the bone, mutilating the animal’s foot or leg. Some animals, especially mothers who are desperate to get back to their young, attempt to chew or twist off their trapped limbs. This struggle may last for hours. Eventually, the animal succumbs to exhaustion and often exposure, frostbite, shock, or death.
If trapped animals do not die from blood loss, infection, or gangrene, they will often be killed by predators or hunters. To kill the animals without damaging their fur, trappers strangle, beat, or stomp them to death.
The only way to stop this practice is to refuse to buy any fur or fur-trimmed clothing. Please sign and ask the Expedition Shoppe to stop selling these cruel jackets now.
