What to do with mink coat

[LEMtheoriginal]

Please don't turn this into an anti fur debate, i hate the fir trade as much as the next person.

I have my mum's fur coat, she died at Christmas.

I don't know what to do with it? I gave a faus fur coat to a friend but obv dudnt want the fur. Just tried a vintage clothes shop and i swear youd have thought i wanted to sell her the scalps of murdered children

It was my nans before that. The poor ctitters are long passed.

It feels wrong just to discard it for two reasons.

1. It belonged to my mum and as such there is emotional atrachnent.
2. It seems pretty disrespectful to the poor bloody mink to just discard it.

I don't care about money, will a charity shop be able to mske use of it?

Any thoughts? I don't want to keep it - feels wrong

@ShrikeAttack

I'd be interested to see a comparison of the environmental and human impact between a 70 year old fur coat, made by skilled craftspeople, that has potentially kept three generations of women warm, compared to a cheap coat of man-made fibre that has to be replaced every five years and is made in a sweat-shop.

I know which I'd rather wear.

Completely agree. People need common sense

@Msmcc1212

The difficulty with wearing it, selling it or making something from it, is that if others see it and like it then it continues the idea that it’s acceptable to wear/use fur. So if you are against the fur trade best to get rid of it.

I’d say the difficulty is the complete lack of common sense and the general assumption that other people are stupid.

Don’t be ridiculous

If I were size 8 I would take it tbh. With climate change it might be handy even in England soon

Schrodinger, you'll be fighting me and brillo hair for it .

All the PETA suggestions. What is the difference between wearing a coat made from a farmed animal, killed for its skin/fur and eating a meal of chicken/beef/pork from a farmed animal killed for food?

If you can't come up with a logical and rational answer, go vegan.

If you can't come up with a logical and rational answer, go vegan.

Well, having seen animals skinned for fur and animals killed for meat I can assure you there is a difference (animals killed for fur are usually skinned alive and left to die from the shock, animals killed for meat are slit and die quickly. But I don't have an issue with a second hand fur coat or animals killed for food so won't be going vegan. I don't agree with fur farming though as the industry standards that are applied to meat don't apply to fur.

animals killed for fur are usually skinned

No they are not

@SchrodingersImmigrant

animals killed for fur are usually skinned

No they are not

Well, the evidence I have seen (with my eyes, actually on the farm, not PETA videos) they were. UK produced fur may not be, but UK produced fur is rare these days.

Well the evidence I have seen on farms and my own home is a no. 🤷🏻

This is not to say it doesn't happen on rare occasion somewhere (what doesn't), but it's not a usual practice at all.

@SchrodingersImmigrant

animals killed for fur are usually skinned

No they are not

They are.

OP bin it

Why would you bin it @Catlover77?

Surely that's wasting a resource? However unpalatable.

I dont understand the skinning them alive thing, surely you risk the animal wriggling and cutting the pelt badly. It would be more efficient to kill it quickly then skin, being therefore able to take your time over removing the skin.

I mean, still hideous and I wouldn't buy new fur, but the skinning them alive thing doesn't just seem cruel, but a bad business decision if your profits are based on getting as many good quality furs as possible.

Don't bin it op.

Keep it as a momento of your nan. (Wear it if its a style that would suit you, everyone will assume its fake)

Donate to a fashion museum or college.

Donate to animal shelter.

Donate to theatre group/costumer.

Sell it.

Dont just bin it.

I bought an old fur on eBay when I went to work in a super cold country (-20) it was amazing, warm, waterproof, and effective. Nothing died because it was vintage.
Sell it in eBay.

My Great-Grandma’s is somewhere in a TV company wardrobe dept. Friend of a friend who works there wanted it as it was the right period for something. It was mint condition though.

I’d advertise it as free if you don’t want to profit from it. Or ebay otherwise.

If you are pro-fur, wear it or sell it.
If it is sentimental, keep it.

If neither of these apply, dispose of it.

Personally I couldn't wear fur full stop.

There's a fur shop in Parkway in Camden Town and another in St. John's Wood. They wouldn't take my mum's mink because of moths but they'd consider otherwise.

I have no idea what I would do if this was me. I keep ferrets and I simply could not look at it without imagining one of my babies suffering like that to make it.

At the same time I would feel that the animals that died deserved more than me hiding it away shamefully or passing the dilemma of what to do with it on to someone else.