Horribly cruelty to dogs and cats ping.
"But despite the seductive appearance, the coat is not mink or sable. Instead, it has been manufactured from dog fur - possibly from an animal that was drugged and skinned alive to preserve the fur's freshness.
Heather Mills-McCartney with a rug made from cats' pelts Similar coats are selling rapidly in fashion boutiques across Europe.
Let me state outright that I'm no fan of fur coats in general -- something not quite right about killing stuff just for fur and fashion.
But the premise of this article is somewhat ... unusual. "Skinning them alive to maintain freshness" is a bit beyond belief: looks to me like they're making something up to make it sound worse than it really is. (And they're not just taking pets off the streets, either -- there'd be no market for multi-breed coats.)
Hope this isn't true. A dog is like a two-year-old. If someone skinned my dog I'd hunt them down and ...
Skinning it two minutes after it's dead is still pretty fresh. How inhumane and inexcusable.