Target: Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Goal: Criminalize the killing of trapped foxes for the fur trade.
A man in rural Wales runs a one-man pelt operation, killing hundreds of wild foxes each year. Although pelt farms are considered so cruel that they are outlawed in Britain, a legal loophole allows wildlife hunters to snare foxes and kill them to sell their pelts. David Sneade takes advantage of that loophole, selling furs to Sweden and the United States. He clubs snared foxes to death, dismembers the bodies, stretches the skin on racks, and then posts about his process on Facebook.
Members of the public have seen Sneade in the act of killing the foxes and describe the scene of him battering the animals to death as “incredibly disturbing” and traumatic. Sneade kills about 300 foxes a year and has told reporters that he feels what he does is less cruel than the dangers a fox might encounter in the natural world. This analysis comes from a man who uses the foxes’ own brain fluid to treat the pelts and leaves the skinned bodies of the dead animals out in the open for birds to feed. One witness who has seen Snead killing foxes said, “The way the fox was handled was disgusting and incredibly disturbing.”
Sneade openly posts photos on Facebook of the furs and skins of animals he has trapped and killed in the Pembrokeshire coast national park. He operates with the knowledge that setting snares is legal in the UK as long as the snares themselves are not designed to kill the animal. When Sneade catches a fox in a snare, he then bludgeons the animal to death because a quicker killing by gunshot would ruin the pelt.
Sign this petition to urge the United Kingdom to ban non-lethal animal snares.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Prime Minister Johnson,
Farms that raise and kill animals for their pelts are considered so barbaric that the United Kingdom has banned the practice. However, a legal loophole that allows hunters to set snares as long as the snares are not designed to kill allows people to continue to trap and kill wildlife for their pelts. David Sneade does just that, killing about 300 foxes a year with a wooden bat.
This killing is brutal and unnecessary. It is violent and traumatizing for the animal and it also allows humans to disrupt the natural food web that exists in the wild. I urge you to outlaw the use of snares in Britain and put an end to this loophole in the fur trade.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
Photo Credit: David Sneade
Simply NO respect for God or any of His creatures. Hell a place of torment for ever and ever waiting for these savages!!!!!
very well said Ann….so excited that one day these monsters will get a taste of their own deeds..truly is the only way I can get through these murders of innocent animals
Amen….Man as a whole cares about the material and once humans put a price tag on something it does not care about the agony and devastation it inflicts to get it. It robs all species of what belongs to them and no living being is safe.
Yep so sad 😞😢😭 so sick of humans & this monster vile thing omg!!
Praying this horrible horrible treatment will be SHUT DOWN,,,,ASAP!!!
STOP THE MURDERING OF INNOCENT SOUL’S…..KARMA TO THOSE “EVIL BEINGS”…..
Havent we moved onto faux fur? Such barbarism for fashion is ridiculous.
MAY THIS ENTITY GET WHAT HE/HIS FARM DESERVES AT THE TABLE OF KARMA. WHAT A POS!
Find thid fucking scum and kill him
Exactly find this mother fucker and do the same to the big bastard!!! Stop useless sob!
What men think this kind of torture is okay ?? And they are overwhelmingly profit industries run by men …
Boris Johnson doesn’t care.
Perhaps the petition should be addressed to his partner Carrie Symonds who is known to fight for many animal causes.
This breaks my heart the way you kill these innocent animals. Stop this now!!!!
This is horrible! Karma to all who buy the fur as well because they do not care either!
What a filthy, disgusting human this Sneade guy is to brutally kill an innocent,living,breathing being for fur?!
These poor babies have families waiting for them!
Governments that allow this to happen legally are morally corrupt and cruel beyond imagination and do not belong in 21st century. And people who support such governments are wicked.
Now imagine every man on the earth killing one wild animal per day like this, “because it is legal”. A few billion per day. No wild animals will be left before the end of this week. Just think about it Johnson. You are sponsoring a cruel and devastating hobby of ONE individual? Why? End it now.
Stop this now!
Needs to be stopped now
NO ONE BUT NO ONE NEEDS TO BE WEARING FUR IN THIS DAY & AGE!!! We are not living as CAVEMEN & WOMEN OR NORDIC VIKINGS.
ENOUGH ALREADY…STOP KILLING!!!
For God’s sake England, find this inbred son of a bitch shut him down and jail him! Don’t let these kind of scum bags tarnish your beautiful Country, please…
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom How in God’s name have you allowed this horror or continue to allow it??
When I look at that picture I see PURE HORROR…PURE EVIL MAN’S GREED HAS NO LIMITS… AND WHO ARE THE EVIL SOULLESS MONSTERS THAT KEEP BUYING THESE BEAUTIFUL FURS THAT BELONG ONLY ON THE BACKS OF INNOCENT ANGEL ANIMALS. THAT WERE GIVEN BY GOD TO THE ANIMALS NOT FOR HUMAN USE EVER! THERE IS NO NEED TO KILL ANIMALS FOR FUR….YOU INSANE PSYCHOS… STOP THIS NOW PLEASE.
THESE EVIL MAGGOTS NEED TO BE SKINNED ALIVE!!!!!!!!! HOPE YOU GET THE END YOU SO DESERVE!!!
It should be against the law to trap and kill any animal. Especially for its fur. There is no need for an animal fur when they have proven fake fur can be produced and look just as good if not better. Those who do this terrible thing need to be stopped prosecuted and jailed.they should be skinned see how they like it
Fuck those who kill the foxes and those who were their furs!
That bastard must be stopped immediately! The laws must be changed so there are mo more loopholes. That guy deserves to spend life in prison with no early parole, pay a $500,000 fine, and be banned for life of owning or going near any animals ever again. It is illegal. It must be completely illegal everywhere in the world. The loopholes must be taken away
WE DO NOT BEED TO KILL ANIMALS FOR FUR – faux fur is beautiful and harms no animals
Please stop the murdering of God’s beautiful creatures. There are many other things that we can wear that doesn’t cause an animal to suffer and die.
ANIMALS SHALL NOT BE VICTIMS OF HUMAN SADISTIC PSYCHOPATHS. This subhuman lowlife must be arrested and get the HARSHEST PUNISHMENT possible. He is a DEHUMANIZED, DESENSITIZED, SADISTIC and PSYCHOPATHIC MONSTER involved in environmental crime! Acts of violence like this have NO PLACE in our communities and CANNOT BE IGNORED. ANIMAL CRUELTY needs to be taken as seriously AS any HUMAN VIOLENCE. Animals SHALL NOT BE VICTIMS — and they deserve JUSTICE just like YOU and ME. I urge you to OUTLAW the use of SNARES in Britain and put an END to this LOOPHOLE in the FUR TRADE!