‘Coyotes are hot,’ says John Hughes, a buyer at J and M Furs in Roundup, Montana, ‘and it’s all due to the trim trade’
HERKIMER, N.Y. — Those fur-trimmed parkas so common on city sidewalks have become a boon to backwoods trappers.
Coyote fur pelts are in big demand to provide the lush, silvery or tawny-tinged arcs of fur on the hoods on Canada Goose coats and their many global imitators. A good western coyote, prized for its silky, light-coloured fur, can fetch more than $100. The top price at a recent Colorado auction hit $170, a 40 per cent increase from four years ago.
“Coyotes are hot,” says John Hughes, a longtime buyer at J…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Are humans regressing, or what? I can’t believe that people are that mindlessly unaware – perhaps it is just wishful thinking on the part of this fur pimp.
I’m still reeling about a story I read this morning about an more than 80 ton oil spill from a tanker run aground at a UNESCO coral reef off the coast of the Solomon Islands – basically hemorrhaging oil and nobody able to stop it. 😦
These jackets cost $1000 (USD). You have to be outright insane to spend that much on a simple item of clothing. No thanks, give me a cheap and efficient fur-less jumper any day of the week.
Scores of lives snuffed out for a bit of trim, humans really are disgusting parasites.