The Fashion Industry wants to use real dog hair for coats????

I heard that the fashion industry is using dog fur to make coats and labeling it as "faux" or "artificial" when it is REAL DOG HAIR?? HOW can we stop this??? IS this true?

The Fashion Industry wants to use real dog hair for coats????

If it is true, it is sick. people should refuse to buy these products. Anything that resembles real fur in any way should be banned.

The Fashion Industry wants to use real dog hair for coats????

OMG!who would ever harm a cute little puppy or any animal at that. Report It

The Fashion Industry wants to use real dog hair for coats????

They already are doing this.Help me fight the good fight by going to http://peta.com Peta is great in helping animals %26amp; fighting for their rights.Get active by signing petitions.Peta is %26amp; has made a difference. (Some people put Peta down but dont listen to them,,they are not animal lovers.)Please visit my 360 page also %26amp; thanks for caring. ;O)

*Tom L,,you are soooo WRONG.

The Fashion Industry wants to use real dog hair for coats????

Yes, I've seen a few stories on this too. In some manufacturing countries (largely in Asia) they have been labeling dog fur and other animal fur as fake and using it in garments. The most recently reported case was the Sean John line. After a shipment reached the US, the company discovered the fraudulently labeled animal fur. The garments were pulled from stores. Sean John claimed their firm had no idea the fur was used, they had called for fake fur in the specs.

The Fashion Industry wants to use real dog hair for coats????

Sad

The Fashion Industry wants to use real dog hair for coats????

Oh calm down..

I saw this on a show last year. I think it was on Riplely's Believe it or Not...you just comb out a bunch of hairy dogs and then you card and spin the hair like you would lambs wool. This gal has been selling her dog hair sweaters for years, you also use it for trim on coats.

She swears they don't smell like a dog and she will comb your dog out until she gets enough fur and then make a sweater out of your own dogs hair.. its a gimmick.

Here is the web site: www.mdnpd.com/pd

The Fashion Industry wants to use real dog hair for coats????

if it is true this is new news

The Fashion Industry wants to use real dog hair for coats????

An animal advocacy group says its investigation has turned up coats - some with designer labels, some at higher-end retailers - with fur from man's best friend. Some retailers were set scrambling to pull the coats from racks, take them off Web sites and even offer refunds to consumers.

The Humane Society of the United States said it purchased coats from reputable outlets, such as upscale Nordstrom, with designer labels - Andrew Marc, Tommy Hilfiger, for example - and found them trimmed with fur from domestic dogs, even though the fur was advertised as fake.

"It's an industrywide deception," said Kristin Leppert, the head of the Humane Society's anti-fur campaign.

The investigation began after the society got a tip from someone who bought a coat with trim labeled as faux fur that felt real.

Leppert and her team began buying coats from popular retailers, then had the coats tested by mass spectrometry, which measures the mass and sequence of proteins.

Of the 25 coats tested, 24 were mislabeled or misadvertised, the society said. Three coats - one from Tommy Hilfiger's Web site ShopTommy.com, one from Nordstrom.com and one from Andrew Marc's MARC New York line sold on Bluefly.com - contained fur from domesticated dogs.

The others had fur from raccoon dogs - a canine species native to Asia - or, in one case, wolves. The single correctly labeled coat was trimmed with coyote fur, but it was advertised as fake.

The retailers the Humane Society said sold mislabeled raccoon dog fur included Lord %26amp; Taylor, BergdorfGoodman.com and Neiman Marcus.com.

Most of the fur came from China.

In response to the Humane Society's investigation, Tommy Hilfiger stopped selling the fur-trimmed garment and said it was looking into the matter.

"We were quite concerned to hear of this finding," Hilfiger spokeswoman Wendi Kopsick said.

Called customers

Nordstrom called the 62 consumers who had purchased vests with dog fur trim to give them the opportunity to return the vests, "because we would never want to deceive our customers in any way," spokeswoman Brooke White said.

She said Nordstrom no longer buys fur trim products from the vendor, who had marketed the vests as faux fur.

Charles Jayson, chief executive of Andrew Marc, disputed the Humane Society's findings and insisted in a statement that all fur on his coats labeled as raccoon contains "only farm-bred raccoon fur from Finland, and our items labeled 'faux fur' are a 100 percent synthetic fabric."

Michael Markarian, executive vice president of the Humane Society, said his group had exchanged letters with Andrew Marc over the test results and that the Humane Society stands by its research.

"Our tests have clearly concluded that not only is this real animal fur, but it's fur from domestic dogs. The fact that they don't believe us is unfortunate but we have confidence in our testing results," Markarian said.

But overall, he said, the Humane Society was pleased with retailers' response.

"We think that the corporations want to do the right thing and that they are being deceived just as much as the consumers are being deceived," Markarian said.

Importing domestic dog and cat fur was outlawed in 2000. Intentionally importing and selling dog fur is a federal crime punishable by a $10,000 fine for each violation.

Macy's, Penney

The discovery of domestic dog fur is the latest twist in the investigation that ensnared retail giants Macy's and J.C. Penney late last year. Both of those retailers were discovered selling coats with raccoon dog fur labeled as raccoon.

J.C. Penney initially removed the offending garments from its stores around Christmas - but eventually it had employees cover the 'raccoon' label with black magic marker and put the coats back on the shelves. Macy's immediately pulled the items from its shelves.

Mislabeling fur is a misdemeanor punishable by a $5,000 fine or a year in prison. Fur valued at less than $150 is not required to be labeled.

A bill introduced by Reps. James P. Moran, a Virginia Democrat, and Mike Ferguson, Repulican of New Jersey, would close that loophole by requiring labels for all fur regardless of its value. The proposed legislation also would ban fur from raccoon dogs.

"Americans don't want Lassie turned into a fur coat," Moran said.

IT'S TRUE-I'm boycotting the manufactuirers and designers-all of their designs not just the doggy fur creations.

The Fashion Industry wants to use real dog hair for coats????

I see the PETA troll are at it again!!!

Point blank ,,, if you are a friend of PETA or HSUS, you are not a friend of domestic animals of any kind!!!!

Are you sure you want to buy into the PETA HSUS-BS

"We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding. ...One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding" - HSUS VP Wayne Pacelle, Animal People, May, 1993

PETA's ultamate goal is the elimination of ALL human use of all animals, and by what ever means necessary. I just hope you all like carrots!!

The Fashion Industry wants to use real dog hair for coats????

Thats just wrong and Sad! well i think i know this website that goes directly to the presidents mail but wouloldnt want to bug him. Thats Horrible!!!

The Fashion Industry wants to use real dog hair for coats????

What has actually happened is the fashion industry imported some coats that had fur trim or were made of fur and were MISLABELED as coming from a wolf or coyote or some other animal but were actually from dogs raised in some Oriental countries to provide fur just as we raise mink and chinchillas for their fur. The US companies issued recalls on those items and also sent them back to the companies in the Orient.