On the Fur Farm
By Pauline Dubkin Yearwood
An Animal Rights Poem from All-Creatures.org

All of God's creatures have rights, a fact that most people don't seem to recognize. This includes both human and non-human animals, but not all of them can speak for themselves.

On the Fur Farm
By Pauline Dubkin Yearwood

The coat took 40 of them,
Raised to cover someone else’s back.
Not for them the dewy grass under their paws,
Sighting prey, the long chase,
The cold air, the brambles,
Morning sun warming wet fur.

Their paws felt only cage wires,
Boxes too small to stretch in,
Smelling of three weeks worth of dung.

The end came, but not quickly enough.

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