Apr 17, 2018 · Harrowing new footage has emerged showing obese 'monster foxes' bred for their fur in shocking conditions on farms in Finland. The horrifying video, part of an undercover investigation, shows...

According to a 2014 report published by Maatalouden tutkimuskeskus, the Finnish Agricultural Research Center, up to 86 per cent of farmed foxes were suffering from bent feet, and over 20 per cent of the animals were significantly obese.

Obesity in farmed blue foxes is associated with high levels of bent feet, difficulty in moving and diarrhoea. Welfare assessments carried out on ten Finnish fox farms (71% blue foxes) in 2011 found that 54% of foxes had slightly bent feet and 23% had severely bent feet, 43% of foxes had some difficulty in moving, 2.7% had major difficulties in ...

Aug 25, 2017 · These foxes were raised to be critically overweight to increase the amount of fur covering their bodies. Some of these foxes were up to five times heavier their natural weight and could hardly move...

Aug 24, 2017 · The Arctic foxes look dangerously obese. Dense rolls of skin cover their bodies like heavy blankets, making it difficult for them to move. Their tails are unusually thick, and their faces are squashed between folds of fat.

Aug 26, 2017 · Overfed and trapped in a tiny cage, this hideously overweight fox is bred in appalling conditions to boost its fur yield for clothing manufacturers. An undercover investigation in western Finland...

Plight of the 'Monster Foxes': Harrowing footage shows over-sized caged animals with huge pelts and rolls of folded skin deliberately bred to be fat in Finni...

Jan 19, 2023 · Obese foxes full of infections and a cub eating his dead sibling were part of the horrors filmed at fur farms in Western Finland between June and November 2022. Animal welfare organization Oikeutta eläimille and Humane Society International/Europe released the footage on …

Nov 23, 2021 · Animals with deformed feet, missing ears and diseased eyes were discovered trapped in tiny cages at the ‘capital of fox fur farming’ in Europe.

Member organisations of the international animal protection coalition Fur Free Alliance urge Finland to use all measures available to end the cruel breeding of the extremely overweight Arctic foxes. Veikka Lahtinen, the campaign coordinator of …