Since many people will pay top dollar for fur coats and like products, trappers and others have an incentive to slaughter unsuspecting wild animals, sometimes in cruel and heinous ways.
An animal caught in a trap will no doubt be in physical pain, but will also likely suffer great emotional distress. The creature will also possible starve to death, bleed to death, become crippled or seriously injured, that is if it is lucky enough to escape. Sometimes trappers drown their quarry, or treat them cruelly in other ways. If a fur-bearing animal is shot and then escapes, it may feel the pain of the bullet; which it cannot ever remove, for the rest of its life. Also, if the wound festers and becomes infected, its death could be very painful indeed. (to be cont'd)
[The original version of this essay first appeared in Eastern Connecticut State University's Campus Lantern student newspaper in the early '90s and as part of my unpublished manuscript "In Mediocrity We Trust... In Debt We Die" And Other Essays]
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