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Banners for your website! Help create awareness for these important animal cruelty issues, and help others join the battle to stop this cruelty, by putting one of these web banners on your own website. Just right-click on either of the two banners below, and select "Save Picture As".

Help spread the word about the cruelty of fur. It's as easy as sending a postcard. (The back is blank for your message).

Pin them on community boards, or drop a couple wherever you think they will get read and used.

Fur-Bearer Defenders has produced moving, powerful 3-to-5 minute videos with unique footage of animals alive and struggling in traps.

This unique footage has been used extensively in Canada and Europe, and has been requested around the world.

We are eager to make these videos available to you or your group. We offer them at a nominal charge, or can loan them free of charge. We encourage that they be shown freely to the public and the media.

These are our videos:
“Crying Shame” – our most up to date overall trapping information. Includes the new 4-spring "padded" Leg-Hold trap, with even more powerfully crushing jaws than ever before. This video also discusses governments' role in the continuation and promotion of cruel traps. Click on the image at right to see the video jacket up close.
Beavers, Trapping, and Water-set Traps - This video shows clearly what animals go through when trapped in the water. The fur trade likes to portray drowning as a more humane death for fur bearing animals. The truth is often they are not held properly under the water, and even when they are, suffering can be tremendous. This video also has footage showing how beavers suffer in Conibear traps. Conibear traps are often used by trappers who are contracted by Municipal governments to eliminate beaver from drainage areas (see our home page for more information).
Muskrats, Trapping and RCMP Fur Hats - this video was made in particular to show the cruel trapping methods used to make hats for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Muskrats are commonly and legally trapped in steel jawed leg-hold traps.
Fox Trim 30 second TV spot - This 2005 powerful TV spot points out that fur trimmed clothing and accessories still come from cruelty. It shows a fox struggling in a so-called "padded" trap. It has aired in British Columbia and Ontario, and is also viewable from our home page. But this powerful message needs to get out further. If you are able to get this spot aired on a community channel, or if you or your group would like to donate or raise the cost of airing it on a channel of your choice, we would be pleased to make the spot available. Silent Screams: Dogs and Cats of the Fur Trade: See our Dog and Cat Fur Pages to view this video online.

Videos have been copyrighted in their entirety, and as such need to remain in their original uncut form.

Some of the videos are available in PAL format as well as in the North American NTSC format.

To Order or find out more Please call, write, or email us. We look forward to hearing from you!

Show the World the sad reality for animals caught in fur trade traps! These animals desperately need to be seen!

Here is just a selection of the photos Fur-Bearer Defenders has available. If you are looking for something that isn't shown here, please ask us.

Display a Bumper Sticker...

Put a bumper sticker on your vehicle, or any other place you think would be suitable! These on-the-go 'ads' for the animals, alert people to the issues, and at the same time tells them exactly where they can go to learn more and help.

Right now, you can ask to receive a bumper sticker free with your Fur-Bearer Defenders’ membership, or renewal. Or, you can receive one with a $1 donation. If you have a preference, just tell us which sticker (as shown) you would prefer!

Fur-Bearer Defenders' President and longtime Director, George Clements, has written a 14 page report (2001) on the progression, challenges, and key points of the trapping cruelty issue in North America over the last 30 years.

Please contact the Fur-Bearer Defenders office if you are interested in receiving a copy.

We have translated our ads in other languages to reach diverse ethnic communities (take a look at the Italian ad at right). And this ad is suitable for translation into any language. If you or your group would like to donate or raise the cost of printing, contact us and we will make it available to be placed in your paper of choice too!

Be the voice for the animals. Tell friends, family and coworkers about what's happening to our continent's fur-bearing animals. Share your information and concerns with them.

Know someone who you think might like to know the information on this website, or who might help us stop trapping cruelty?

Email them a link directly to www.BanLegholdTraps.com, or email them a link to our See N Say Toy

A Trapper's See N Say Toy - this interactive See N Say toy (NOT for children), also directs people into Fur-Bearer Defenders' website. The toy, generously created for Fur-Bearer Defenders by Bryant, Fulton and Shee, is at: http://www.banlegholdtraps.com/email.swf

Letting the government know your position is a powerful tool for change. Though the federal government is involved as well, in North America it is the provincial, territorial and state governments that have jurisdiction generally over wildlife and trapping.

We encourage you to get in touch with your Provincial Ministry responsible, as well as your MLA, MPP, or state representative, and tell them what you think. If writing, ask one or two questions to avoid getting a form reply.

Honourable Barry Penner, Minister of Environment: Room 112, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, BC., Canada, V8V 1X4, Phone: 250-387-1187, Fax: 250-387-1356, web address HERE.

(More addresses regarding various trapping issues can frequently be found in Fur-Bearer Defenders' quarterly member newsletter).

Photo G Cat in a Leg-Hold Trap	Photo B Canada Goose in Leg-Hold Trap
Photo C Lynx in Leg-Hold Trap	Photo D Coyote in Leg-Hold Trap
Photo E Fox in Leg-Hold Trap	Photo F Wolverine in Snare Trap
Photo A Red Squirrel in Leg-Hold Trap	Photo H Ermine in Conibear Trap