Norwegian Fur Farms

I am as I have mentioned earlier a Norwegian living in NZ. I have always had a soft spot for animals, even whales, sharks and crocodiles. It hurts me to read about animal mistreat, neglect, and of course the fur trade, I have always believed the fur farms in my country of origin treated their animals by the book. Cause if such trade is to be around one has to do things right and with as little pain as possible for those poor wee foxes, ferrets etc...but recently it came to every ones attention this was not the case at all, in fact many animals were legless, and had injuries beyond belief! Some were ear less, some were dead, others had open wounds, it was abhorrent! At one of the farms the Norwegian television station NRK managed to talk to the farmer and he was unaware of the condition of the animals as he claimed it was hard to see them as some where blocking the view of others...HELLO??!! So, he had to physically take one animal out out of time to find the injured ones, this questions only one thing to me...do the farmers sit on their ass all day long??? Do they never attend to their animals??? Do they even have the time to feed them??? Lazy farmers are ruining things for the active ones, but sadly there are not many of the active farmers left, so animals are suffering needlessly!! Even though the injuries sustained was not directly done by the farmer, in fact a predator animal, it is still the farmers responsibility to check, prevent such attacks to happen! The cages the animals were sitting in had large holes in them like the ones used for birds...birds have smaller feet and can sit on one wire at a time, an animal of the size of a fox can't and often the legs gets stuck or goes through the wires, that's when the accidents occurs in the first place so the farmers needs to stop using wire cages, they are NOT meant for large animals, not even ferrets!

http://www.vgtv.no/?id=23928 be aware, this link shows the true life of animals in Norwegian fur farms.

Above is the link to the video taken when the animal origanisation illegally visited several farms throughout Norway.

Now is the 'talk' about perhaps abandoning the fur trade for good under the spotlight and I can't say this trade is needed anyways, it's just another way of making money, however animals are hurt whilst money is being made here, Norway i must say apart from this did sedate their animals before they killed and skinned them, so in compare to countries such as China where they beat them to death and skin them alive whilst they are still conscious fighting for their lives, Norway is doing way better i think! BUT it's still wrong and cruel regardless, it's humans being selfish again!


This image was taken from VGNett's website and is a white fox with a missing ear.

I don't want to add too many of these images here as it will just make people cry...I really hope Norway will end the fur trade for good as there's clearly no justification to continue this anymore, here in NZ there's no fur trade except from sheepskin, but the skin is taken AFTER the animal has been humanely slaughtered for meat(I have issues with that too, not so much as the actual fur trade though)...

I hope I could give some more insight through my blog about this and i will use it more now to write about other things that are absurd and meaningless as well. So watch this space as they say!


The Animal welfare Organisation that made the headlines about the animals being abused and neglected on the farms across Norway have now been accused of faking the photo's by taking away healthy foxes and replaced them with legless ones and heavily injured ones, so my above blog is possibly a waste of time from my end...but it makes me sick that people who are suppose to care for animals' welfare would hurt them in order to get their point across, to me that is disgusting!! And I feel for the animals involved and I still wish the fur industry to be abandoned for good as there's no place for fur in our world, let the animals live as they were meant to, in the bush hunting etc...no for us to wear, not for our amusement!