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New Undercover Images Reveal Suffering Animals on Quebec Fur Farms

From AnimalJustice.ca
September 2022

The photos reveal foxes living in tiny, rusted mesh cages, with no enrichment and inadequate protection from the weather. The images also reveal another Quebec fur farm that keeps minks in filthy, intensive conditions, including cages and nesting boxes coated with a buildup of dirt, rust, and cobwebs.

A silver fox stares through the wire from inside a barren cage. Farmed foxes will spend their entire life confined, and typically alone, inside this type of cage. Foxes like this individual are used for breeding or will eventually be killed for their fur.

Animal Justice is releasing disturbing new images taken at the last remaining fox fur farm in Quebec. The photos reveal foxes living in tiny, rusted mesh cages, with no enrichment and inadequate protection from the weather. The images also reveal another Quebec fur farm that keeps minks in filthy, intensive conditions, including cages and nesting boxes coated with a buildup of dirt, rust, and cobwebs.

The images were obtained by photojournalism agency We Animals Media in August 2022.

Animal Justice believes the animals may be suffering illegally, in violation of provincial animal cruelty laws and the industry’s own codes of practice. Animal Justice has filed a legal complaint with provincial authorities, urging them to immediately inspect the farms and determine whether charges are warranted.

Fur is a dying industry in Quebec, with nearly 90% of the province’s cruel fur farms closing over the past decade, leaving just three known farms still in operation. Animal Justice and other organizations, including Quebec-based Humane Society International/Canada, are calling on the Quebec government to ban fur farming, to protect animal welfare and human health. The Montreal SPCA has identified a fur farm ban as one of its top three election issues.

Two farmed foxes dwell side by side, alone in barren cages. These calico or marble-coated foxes spend their entire lives separated from each other inside these types of cages. They are used for breeding or will themselves eventually be killed for their fur.

A farmed fox peers through the wire mesh of their barren cage. This calico or marble-coated fox will spend their entire life confined, and typically alone, inside this type of cage. Foxes like this individual are used for breeding or will eventually be killed for their fur.

Two mink stare out through the wire mesh of their barren cage at a fur farm in Quebec, Canada. Their enclosure contains no nest or bedding.

Farmed foxes peer through the wire of their barren wire mesh cage at a fur farm in Quebec, Canada. These calico or marble-coated foxes spend their entire lives, separated and typically alone, inside these types of cages. They are used for breeding or will eventually themselves be killed for their fur.

Small mink cages covered in a buildup of cobwebs, dirt, and dust.

Cramming foxes and minks into barren wire cages for their entire lives deprives them of the ability to fulfill nearly every biological need. It’s standard in the fur industry to gas minks to death, and to kill foxes by anal electrocution. The antiquated industry causes immense suffering to animals and exposes people to dangerous public health risks.

Fur farming has already been banned in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and the United Kingdom. The province of British Columbia recently banned mink farming, in response to concerns over public health

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