Chinese fur farms have no regulations meaning the farmer can house and slaughter the animals to his liking.

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) conducted an undercover investigation about the Chinese dog and cat fur trade.They found the following:

• Some dogs and cats were still alive and struggling when hung by their legs to be skinned.
• Furisdead.com said when the fur is peeled over the animals head, their bloody bodies are tossed onto a pile of others.
• Some of these animals are still alive blinking and breathing in ragged gasps.
• PETA reported “a skinned raccoon dog on the heap of carcasses who had enough strength to lift his bloodied head and stare into the camera.”

Some animals were once loving companions. Millions of dogs and cats—some still wearing collars—are transported without food, shelter, or water, shoved into tiny metal crates, and stacked on trucks—as many as 8,000 animals to a truck. When they arrive for slaughter, workers toss the crates 10 feet to the ground, causing the animals’ limbs to shatter.

After they are killed and skinned, their fur is often deliberately mislabeled as fur from other species and exported to the U.S. to be sold to unsuspecting customers. China supplies more than half of the finished fur garments imported for sale in the United States. Because a fur’s origin can’t be traced, anyone who wears any fur at all may actually be wearing the coat of a dog or cat and therefore shares the blame for the horrific conditions on Chinese fur farms.