General Chat

Grouse :((( I know,what a shame.

Has been on the news about a pet rabbit that was taken from it's hutch and killed... they dont know how yet,but it was skinned the fur was thrown into the owners garden ;((

Marion

Today is the 'glorious 12th'. Not a happy day for Grouse.

Sue,

I absolutely agree, killing for food is one thing but killing for the animals fur is unacceptable to me..

I know that my boys feel the same way as I do about animals be they domesticated or wild. I have had the privilege of seeing many a wild animal in its habitat when camping in the wilds back home. It is an experience that you have to experience to appreciate the beauty of the animals.

We would sit perfectly still around a dying camp fire and wait, the bush would become alive with activity but the predators were silent. I was a few feet away from a lynx and held my breathe, it was fascinating to see the rippling muscles of this magnificent cat who moved in slow motion and looked as if someone had taken a paint brush to it and painted on the spots...

Then the huge appealing eyes of a bush baby who would sit and watch you...Ever so slowly I would get up and extend an apple to the animal who would delicately take it from me and then fade into the bush to eat it.

Every morning was the same thing, pesky monkeys got into everything that was not nailed down. I could go on and on but enough of high jacking Chris's thread.
Apologies for that...

Goodnight everyone,

LIndy ;))))))))))))

Not a good idea to keep food animals as pets I think.

It must be very hard if you are a softie (as I am) and grow fond of them.

I suppose if someone has grown up in wartime and needed to be self sufficient then being sentimental isn't an option.

Years ago I remember being very upset on learning that my paternal grandmother who lived way out on the Fens of Lincolnshire would drown kittens when her cat gave birth. I love cats and found that hard to imagine but she'd grown up poor and that's what her family had always done I suppose.

Going back to the theme of fur.........my favourite winter coat is a rather sumptuous black fake fur with a hood. I fell in love with it in a shop window several years ago and husband was feeling generous!
It's a bit over the top for wearing round the village though! I have trouble finding opportunities to wear it.

But it's as warm as real fur and looks realistic so there isn't any reason these days why anyone needs to kill an animal just for its fur.


Sue
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I wore a rabbit fur coat in the 80's when it was fashionable. I liked it, but would not wear one now for fear of being attacked for wearing an animal skin.

But I would never wear an endangered animal skin and have to agree that they look best on them.

Tina xxx

Pmsl...Sue,

I was six months pregnant with my youngest son when my " itch" of a Mil called me as she decided It was time that I learned how to kill a rabbit, they were cute fluffy little bunnies that my eldest son adored.

She grabbed the rabbit by the scruff of the neck and gave it a karate chop, then hung it upside down and slit the belly open..

I puked all over my shoes and ran to our house next door while hearing her yelling at me that in a war I would be a useless woman...If was only many years later that I could eat rabbit and only if it comes clean from the butcher shop.

Lindy ;))))))))))))

No I def would not wear fur, But then again i have been a vegi for 42 yr.

Think I would have done the same Sue.

LOL Lindy

We had our honeymoon in Corfu.

We stayed in a little (rather grotty) place named over optimistically Pension Romantica.

The owners were friendly and the grandparents lived in a cottage at the back with a few farm animals wandering about.

There was a nice goat tethered near the Pension and we used to say hello to it and the little cat they had. We asked the owners what the animals were called but they looked surprised because animals have no names!

One day we came back from a day out and the goat was missing. I asked where it was.
"Goat no more" they said.

We ate out that evening.

Sue
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It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat - and only 1 to wear it.

I only wear real fur when I cuddle a live animal, lol.

Other than that, I have a lovely collection of falsies - faux fur jackets and coats, that is.
And I might add, people have asked if they're real fur, so if it's as good as the real thing, why not wear faux?
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lol

Of course not Marion, I will wait for them to fall off of the tree and maybe give it a shake or two..

Lindy ;))))))))))

Sue,

When my boys were very little we lived up north in the countryside. I had to walk a few miles everyday with them to get them to a creche where they could interact with other children.

We used to pass a lovely little old ladies cottage that had a turkey running around the garden and every day my boys would sing out gloo! gloo! gloo! and the turkey would come running out and accompany us all along the fence singing gloo! gloo! gloo!

One afternoon in December we went past the same house and the boys sang the same song but no turkey...this went on for a few days and they started to fret.

Eventually I knocked on the door and asked what happened to the turkey. Well when she told me they had killed it my boys cried buckets as it is not a Portuguese tradition to have turkey for Christmas.

It just happened that the turkey was plump enough and ready for killing at that time...lol...

Lindy who does not eat turkey nor do my now grown up boys..

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Your not going to murder your mango's are you Lindy ? lol

Noooo! Roxanne,

I buy mine from the supermarket!

Would never ever think of picking a live fruit, except maybe for the two mangoes that are growing nice and plump on my tree...

Lindy ;)))))))))))

No.........I wouldn't wear a fur................
When I was a child my Grandmother had a full length fur coat. She was suffering with dementia by this time and thought everyone was trying to rob her coat. It had been an expensive coat about 40 years previously but what I remember about it was that it was bald in spots and smelt...........She wore it everywhere and at night put it on her bed like an eiderdown.
The final straw came (no pun intended) when she tried to drink tomato juice out of a bottle with a straw and instead of sucking the straw she tipped the bottle and the tomato juice went "blup blup blup" down the front of the precious coat.............I have never drunk tomato juice since......lol
After my Grandmother died my Mum took great delight in cutting up the fur coat and making draught excluders with it.

When my older daughter was about 3 we went to a nature park with various animals on a playgroup day out.
We passed a large cage with a turkey in it.

"What's that?" she asked.

I was a bit nervous of saying but told her it was a turkey.

"Oh yum" she said.

Then there was the whole salmon a friend (who had a licence to fish) gave us. It was delivered after the kids had just gone to bed but it was so beautiful we thought they might like to see it. They must have been quite little.

"What are you going to do with it?" Older daughter asked.

We explained we were about to cut it up and freeze it so we could eat it.

"Can I have a bit?" She asked

My lot have never shown any desire to be veggies!

Sue
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lol Lindy:-))
You could get arrested:-)) You do know that the fruit can only be eaten that has dropped to the ground,you cant pick it,they cry:-))

How awful!

All this talk of animals, their skins and poor little silkworms to keep us fed, clothed, and happy...

I do declare that I shall no longer wear clothes and only eat fruit...or do the apples cry like "yummy " lobsters do when we cook them alive.

My baby sister had the right attitude, lamb chops and bacon came from the supermarket and not from "Ba! Ba! " black sheep and "Miss Piggy" as I used to secretly tell her when Mum was not around.

Lindy who is unable to kill anything larger then a fly.

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I could never be a farmer.
Lived on a farm when I was 6 for for 4 yrs. I used to feed the orphan lambs and put my hand in the calves mouths, as well as pleating the cows tails as they got milked.

I dont eat lamb or veal. Stopped eating beef before BSE.Seeing the piles of burning cattle finished me off.

I eat chicken but try not to think about it :((

Marion