Trappers take pelts from fur to fashion
February 18, 2012 at 6:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
Samantha Youngren couldn’t help slipping her hands into a pair of pure white polar fox mitts Wednesday night at the Duluth Boat, Sports, Travel and RV Show. Next, she and her husband, Alex, had to check out a plush raccoon fur trooper cap. The Hermantown couple found both items at the booth of the New American Fur Co.
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Edberg and Gagnon operate another business called North Shore Wildlife Control, which is “focused on humanely removing skunks, raccoons, and other wildlife from homes,” according to an article in the Two Harbors News Chronicle. “Wildlife Control would trap the animals and take them to Kijak (Regina Kijak of the Minnesota DNR), who would rehabilitate them and release them into the wild.”
Now we find out, hul-lo, they’re selling fur products, including skunk. ” Are they purporting to humanely capture these animals with one business, then skinning them with another?
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Or are they using one skill set to make money two different ways? Boy, the thought chills the blood.
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That’s fine, if you have no problem with dishonest business practices, if that’s indeed what they’re doing. You can’t claim to be humanely removing animals and releasing them into the wild if you’re turning them into mittens. And who would buy a skunk teddy bear for their kid if they knew it made from a critter than lived in a sewer pipe and rooted through garbage? Perhaps Edberg and/or Gagnon could post here and explain it themselves.
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