Between 4 and 5 million animals
are trapped and killed in the US for the
commercial fur trade each year.

Every year in the US, steel-jaw leghold traps
cripple or kill millions of non-target animals --
domestic dogs and cats, owls, squirrels, chipmunks,
blue jays, swans, deer and golden eagles,
as well as threatened and endangered species.

In a 1999 Decision Research poll,
79% of Americans said they oppose
trapping on wildlife refuges.

Trapping is allowed on 280 units (more than half)
of the National Wildlife Refuge System.
Steel-jaw leghold traps are used on 140,
or half, of these 280 refuges.

To make an average length fur coat requires the skins of

16 coyotes or 15 bobcats or 60 minks or 20 badgers
or 15 otters or 18 red foxes or 30 raccoons or 40 sables
or 11 silver foxes or 50 muskrats or 15 beavers
or 100 chinchillas or 30 rabbits