I love it! Has anyone else seen products made of the so-called "Lippi Cat" fur? I read on another blog that there is no such species--not in China, where they supposedly are an indigenous wild animal, nor anywhere else on the globe. Speculation is that it's really either domestic cat fur or fur from wildcats (some possibly endangered species) such as Bengal cats that they have given a euphemistic name to make the fur sound more exotic. It's all over the fashion world right now. PETA should expose it for the sham it is--there is no such thing as a Lippi cat! (also spelled Lipi in some places).

Posted by: Soli | October 4, 2007 03:30 PM

gorgeous!

Posted by: jess | October 4, 2007 03:31 PM

In name of all our feline friends, you Peta Pussy cats people are the best!

Posted by: Maureen | October 4, 2007 05:22 PM

ok i like fashion and looking good as the next person but if hundreds of animals have 2 die fro smothin that u will adventually throw out is soo stupid. like they dont deserve to die for some famous rich B*t*h. its not ok and it never will be

Posted by: Jenny S. | October 4, 2007 06:42 PM

I think I have convinced my mom to donate her mutton (lamb) coat. It's from the '50's...but its still fur and disgusting.

I think she has some fur collars she used to attach to coats laying around someplace too.

You'll be getting those soon PETA! I'm so happy to be able to help you out in this way!

Posted by: Tamara | October 4, 2007 10:25 PM

I think people would take the protest more seriously if they didn't dress up like cats. Think about it, when was the last time someone in a cat costume engaged you in intellectual conversation? ;) To me (and I'm a vegan, even), it seems they are more making a spectacle of themselves, than promoting a cause. Let's switch to protests that don't have funny costumes that distract from the issue and allow people to brush off the protesters as 'crazy'!!

Posted by: Melissa | October 5, 2007 09:55 AM

Melissa, I doubt the press would cover this story if the women weren't naked. Just imagine the headline... "PETA sits down quietly and politely asks that people not harm animals." The sensationalism is there to help get media attention (which it certainly does).

Posted by: anti-sean | October 5, 2007 01:54 PM

I think they are simply
wonderful.

Posted by: Judith, Freedom Fighter | October 5, 2007 06:48 PM

Go PETA cats! :]

Posted by: maddy molloy | October 6, 2007 11:10 AM

i dont see the need to actually demonstrate or protest when you are naked.
because what ppl will actually be looking at will be the body, and not the posters you are holding.
ppl wont pay attention to the meanings of 'anti-fur', but they'd think: 'wow, hot bods. today's my lucky day' or 'what are they thinking man?!'

but its for a gd cause anyway, so i support it.
and yes, animal fur or the cruel treatment of animals should be banned completely.

Posted by: rah | October 6, 2007 11:55 AM

anti-sean,

Right, the press covered the story because women were naked. But naked women have nothing to do with animal rights, and so the anti-fur message probably didn't enter into people's minds. So PETA has succeeded in drawing people's attention to how outlandish they are. This actually hurts our cause, as few can take this seriously.

You said, "Just imagine the headline... PETA sits down quietly and politely asks that people not harm animals," but I never said the protest should be "quiet." You get enough protesters there, it will be in the news. And it will be there for the right reasons, and we will be sending the right message -- that this is a serious issue.

Posted by: Melissa | October 8, 2007 01:19 PM

So, build more factories that destroy habitats and animal life and subsidize mining to get the materials and factory farming to get the plant material then pollute the enviroment with the chemicals,dye ect.,and fumes and deplete limited resources instead of using a renewable,natural resource? Yep, makes sense to me.Sarcasm intended.

Posted by: Mars | October 9, 2007 08:05 AM

Dear Mars,
Please do some research on the amount of energy "real" skins and furs take to produce. A farmed fur coat takes 22 gallons of petrol, a synthetic coat takes 1/3 of a gallon. Fur farms have been fined for the thousands of tons of waste they leak into nearby streams. Fur, leather, and wool are all many times more environmentally destructive than their cruelty-free alternatives. See the environmental section on www.furisdead.com.

Posted by: Jenna | October 15, 2007 02:00 PM

Oh that "sarcasm intended" space cadet! : ) Doesn't he/she realize that we have "brave," "conscienable," "manly" hunters who pay thousands of dollars to so-called "preserve the land and wild animals" - and so that's why they kill the animals (sometimes practically to extinction), and that negatively affects the earth.
But I guess that's ok with the space cadet, since destructive mankind has already polluted the air with related and non-related animal issues, as per the U.N. report, pointed out to the space cadet numerous times.
Of course typical of space cadets, the info went into outer space, and now the space cadet is reaching far to say any kind of nonsense.

Posted by: Ariel | October 16, 2007 05:33 PM