In response to a number of requests, I’ve put up links to some of my favorite websites about chinchillas. Scroll down and look to your right.
One of the goals of those who own chinchillas as pets is to see the end of pelting (breeding chins and slaughtering them for fur) in this country. Britain, happily, has already banned the practice, but America lags behind. One important project is the Change by Choice initiative, which seeks to help fur ranchers transition out of the fur industry. (While of course, we long for the day pelting is made illegal, it is important to work with the ranchers in the meantime to offer them alternatives to the unnecessary and cruel killing of chinchillas.
I’ll be donating to the PHFR project: Pet Homes for Ranchies. The goal is to save one animal at a time by buying them from the pelters, and then placing the rescued chins in safe home situations. Donations can be made through PayPal or by mail, instructions here.
To my friends who own dogs and cats: imagine if in America, pets such as yours were being bred for coats. On the great list of the world’s injustices, this may not rank high in the minds of others, but in this household, saving these most exceptional of creatures is among our serious priorities.
Matilde thanks you!
I wouldn’t change my little chinchilla, ‘Barry’ for anything! No dogs or cats for me…Well said Hugo!
We have three cats, so adopting a chinchilla might only serve to give the poor dear a nervous disposition.
However, I’ll always send hugs to Matilde.
It’s all cultural definition – which animals are edible, pettable, loveable, and which are not. It’s disturbing when an animal like chinchilla is both pet-worthy and coat/purse-worthy. Kudos to those trying to change our culture’s view of chinchillas!
Jenell, you’re absolutely right. Really, I aspire to living completely cruelty-free as a vegan. But it’s taking a while to get there.
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all energy from humans should be directed toward wild animals, protection,it is silly to try to make people not breed animals for fur, we EAT animals all the time,they would not be there if people did not breed them. sure it a shame to kill anything, did you know that you can hook up an eeg machine to a plant and it can remember people. start helping the creatures that need you most. wild creatures .thank you and may god bless you, I wish you the best,I do my best, to help gods creatures, and so do you, I just wish people would remember and protect the wild ones, ,