OK not really.  But how would dog lovers react if they saw this?  Or cat
lovers who saw a listing for a Persian cat skin?
 
For a ferret lover to react unfavorably to a ferret pelt for sale is not
pompous or hypocritical.  I eat meat and have leather shoes, so if someone
wants to sell cow hide or chicken feathers, that's fine with me.  But I
do not eat ferret meat, or wear fitch fur, just as I don't eat dog or cat
meat, or wear dog or cat skins.
 
(Zen points out that fitch fur was not uncommon early last century.  That
is irrelevant; dog and cat meat is eaten in some countries.)
 
Objecting to the sale of the pelt of a domestic companion animal is fine.
Not objecting is fine too.  Neither position defines a person as good or
bad.
 
Tolerance for different viewpoints is good.
 
Linda Iroff
Oberlin OH
[Posted in FML issue 3019]