Farmed ostriches are kept in pens of quarter to half an acre per pair and in America, may be kept in truly intensive conditions, ie indoors. Fur Most people know about the cruelties involved in obtaining fur. The animals are either trapped wild or farmed. Both methods of production involve cruelty. Wild trapping can mean endangered species being wiped out, besides the individual suffering of animals caught in steel-jawed leghold traps.
Some animals go to desperate lengths to escape, often gnawing off part of their own leg or paw.
The traps do not discriminate, so other animals may also be destroyed or maimed, including some domestic animals. Farmed animals, principally mink and arctic fox, are kept imprisoned all their lives in tiny cages. Fur farming is a vast industry with more than 40 million animals being raised in intensive conditions, mainly in North America and Scandinavia. Consider what it must be like for a creature like the arctic fox, which naturally roams a territory of about 15,000 acres, to spend its life in a cage measuring just a few cubic feet. Animals like mink are often introduced into a country by accident when they escape from fur farms, posing a threat to native wildlife.