Stop Bludgeoning Foxes to Death for Their Fur

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

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95 Comments

  1. Elease Bradford says:

    David Sneade and others like him are barbaric and should not be allowed to kill the foxes. The legal loophole that allow the use of these snares needs to be closed. The snares are not designed to kill but cause the animals to suffer.

    • I know this effing bastard will die a horrific death. Karma is a bitch and he has his coming.

    • T MANABE says:

      People like David Sneade and others like him should be skinned alive to know what it feels like to be trapped, suffer in that trap, then to be slaughtered just so humans can wear fur. The so called nasty FUR TRADE should be abolished throughout the world. Laws in every country must be changed to stop this heinous fur trade and those who slaughter so many innocent animals for profit and greed.

  2. He lacks empathy, integrity, a conscience and a soul. May he suffer in kind for all the pain he’s inflicted and die broke and alone.

  3. As far as I’m concerned anyone who kills animals to make a living is just too stupid to find a real job. Torturing and killing animals is just plain unethical. Close that legal loophole that makes this possible!

  4. Stella Osborne says:

    This is inhumane and senseless. It is cruel and excruciating.

  5. Maineiac says:

    Sneade is a monster and anyone who would wear fox fur is also a monster for supporting this barbarity.

  6. Put the sleazebag out of business. Here in some states the fur would be jerked off a person’s body. Animal rights. Too bad they cant blungeon him and skin his ass alive.No one in america shoild buy any furs from him. He’d be looking like booboo the fool. Nosells,what then? I hope he gets jail time. He needs to,stupid ass.Hope people can buy fake fur and save the foxes.

  7. Mark Wright says:

    I want to badly put a bullet through the motherfucking cunt’s noggin. Not a human, by any means. And, the asshole has the heart of stone to brag about his exploits. Kill him now!

    • Charleen says:

      I’m angry about this filthy fucking disgusting cretin moron!! I agree!! Sick!! No conscience 😡😡🤬🤬😭

  8. OMG, CAN’T ANYONE STOP THIS VILE AND EVIL MONSTER??? ARE THERE NO LAWS IN PLACE? IF NOT PASS LAWS AND THEN MAKE SURE THEY ARE ENFORCED. THIS IS EXTREME AND VILE ANIMAL ABUSE AND TORTURE LEADING TO A HORRIFIC AND PAINFUL DEATH. THERE IS A SPECIAL PLACE IN HELL WAITING FOR DAVID SNEADE WHO IS A VILE AND EVIL MONSTER. YOU MAKE ME SICK AND MAD AS HELL YOU MONSTER.

  9. Death wish for this filth-bag animal murdering vile pos David Sneade.The only good hunter is a dead one.Hunt the hunter and turn these bastards into fertiliser! An eye for an eye.OH YESSSS!!!!!!!!!!

  10. Evan Jane Kriss says:

    FACEBOOK: Take down this guy’s page!!!
    U.K. Law enforcement: SHUT THIS BARBARIC OPERATION DOWN NOW!

  11. Bear De Mel says:

    Street justice is a wonderful thing

  12. Ashamed to be human says:

    This selfish & barbaric practise needs to be outlawed NOW! As if nature isn’t already dealing with enough crap caused by humans, a worthless POS like DAVID SNEADE comes along. That murdering SOB should be hunted down & have every ounce of his pathetic body bludgeoned. 😡

  13. Boris fuckin Johnsonshould get on this and ban this evil person for his crime .murdering poor innocent animals for his own gain. He should be named and shamed all over social media

  14. Sally Goddard says:

    Evil f***** c***. He wants the same done to him and worse!!!

  15. This vile and evil animal torturing murdering money hungry monster from hell David Sneade must be brought to Justice and jailed for life. If I could get to the lowlife evil bastard this evil monster bastard would find out what it is like to be tortured to death.
    You evil monster bastard suffer an excruciating agonising death and burn in hell for an eternity. An eye for an eye. You lowlife pos is what you deserve. Die you evil monster bastard David Sneade slowly. I curse you !!!!!

  16. Julie DeRusha says:

    This loophole needs to be CLOSED!!!

  17. All those involved in these horrors need to suffer the same abuse/death… ANIMAL ABUSE/KILLINGS MUST BE SEVERELY PUNISHED. IN MY OPINION

  18. SHAME ON HUMANS!!!’

  19. Justice for foxes!
    Death penalty for bastard killer, Pos, coward!

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