Practice despite sound at the mill snow like casting dec and other cities across North As a sign of the times, Canada Goose parkas are the target of choice for this year's anti-fur rituals. Why? Because even though fewer traditional full-fur coats are being worn these days, fur is now omnipresent smaller items, accessories and trimmings. This has made fur much more affordable, and it is now being worn by more and younger people than we have seen decades. It has been democratized. response, PETA has unleashed a new campaign juxtaposing Canada Goose's coyote-fur jackets with a disturbing video of a trapped coyote suffering after being shot. The video is prefaced with a warning that it contains upsetting images, but this has apparently not discouraged of PETA's fans because, it claims, the video has received more than 16 million views. To drive home PETA's message, volunteers wearing nothing but body paint and faux-fur ears and tails would be posing bloody leg-hold traps outside retailers selling Canada Goose parkas over the weekend. According to PETA Senior Vice President Lange, Anyone who buys or sells one of Canada Goose's fur-and-feather jackets is responsible for these animals' terrifying and painful deaths. has PETA's shocking video convinced me to give up Canada Goose? Not a and here's why: 1. Video Shows Perfect Kill. The first problem is that PETA's campaign video does show a coyote suffering after being shot. Quite the contrary, we the animal killed instantly with a direct shot to the head exactly how it is supposed to be done. This is the most humane way to euthanize animals taken restraining traps, as taught trapper training manuals and mandated by the Agreement on Humane Trapping Standards For a textbook example of how to dispatch a trapped coyote, just watch PETA's video. It is also clear that the foot-hold trap has caused no injury to the animal. other words, despite PETA's sensationalist warning intended to shock people who have never seen animal killed its own video confirms that approved and humane methods are being used to euthanize coyotes. 2. Coyote Mums Not Desperate. PETA claims that trapped coyote mothers desperate to get back to their starving pups have been known to attempt to chew off their own limbs to escape. While this have happened very occasionally with some species with older trapping systems, it never happens with modern foot-hold traps. Furthermore, the whole starving pups scenario never happens with fur trapping for one simple reason: like other furbearers, coyotes are hunted for their fur the fall and because that's when their fur is prime. At this time of year, their are no longer dependent on them. 3. Coyote Predator Problem. As important as the nonsense PETA does say is what it doesn't say: It omits to inform us that coyotes have expanded their range across North and are now abundant that they are the number one predator problem for ranchers, preying on new-born calves and lambs. It also fails to mention the increasingly frequent reports, from Toronto to Los Angeles, of coyotes carrying away pet dogs and cats. Several states and provinces have even offered bounties to reduce over-populated coyotes. Culling must be carried out both to protect livestock and pets, and also the health of coyote populations themselves. Given that coyote populations must be managed, it is surely more respectful, and responsible, to use their fur for clothing than to throw it away. 4. New Foot-Hold Traps Designed to Prevent Injuries. The foot-hold traps used to capture coyotes are not the diabolical, steel-toothed devices that activists to hate. Their use was banned decades ago North Huge advances have been made trap designs, thanks to world-leading research directed by the Fur Institute of Canada with support from the Canadian Government and the international fur trade. Photo: Innovates Technology Futures Fur Institute of Canada. The new live-holding traps have