# Crossed paths with a fur trader **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 3, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossed-paths-with-a-fur-trader/739350 "2015-12-03T20:22:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossed-paths-with-a-fur-trader/739350/21 "2015-12-04T13:47:22Z")
That’s nothing. You wouldn’t believe the number of people wearing leather shoes I meet in a day. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossed-paths-with-a-fur-trader/739350/22 "2015-12-04T14:45:41Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > You could remind him that fur is murder. After ensuring that your own wardrobe has no leather. Or wool or plant fibers that displaced wild animal habitat, or synthetic polymers whose creation creates toxic waste. In other words: kelp flatters those who know how to carry it off. Also confirming that all of their clothes are made by places that have health and safety laws and forbid swear shops. But yeah, that coat did look warm. ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossed-paths-with-a-fur-trader/739350/23 "2015-12-04T16:34:51Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > … and forbid swear shops. You lace 16 fucking runners and whaddya get …another fucking day older and deeper in fucking debt. ---
**Author:** ![puddleglum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puddleglum/32/137_2.png) [@puddleglum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puddleglum)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossed-paths-with-a-fur-trader/739350/24 "2015-12-04T16:44:16Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > Huge missed opportunity. Now you’ll never get to know how silky smooth that fur must have felt. I bet it would have been real nice to stroke it. This is so true, real fur coats are shockingly soft and smooth. They are really cool to feel. ---
**Author:** ![wendigo100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/6a8cbe/32.png) [@wendigo100](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wendigo100)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossed-paths-with-a-fur-trader/739350/25 "2015-12-04T19:15:06Z")
> [@puddleglum](#): > > This is so true, real fur coats are shockingly soft and smooth. They are really cool to feel. Agreed. My ex had one - I think it was fox - anyways, she had a thing for teasing me while wearing it with nothing underneath. Sooooo sexxy and yes amazingly soft, but I dunno if I could ever pull one off (let alone drop the cash for 1) ha-ha unlike Mr. Pimp in the woods. Hats off for the confidence and not giving a shit. Ambermoon should totally pet it if there’s a next time. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossed-paths-with-a-fur-trader/739350/26 "2015-12-04T20:32:13Z")
> [@mistymage](#): > > At least the furs were keeping someone warm. Around here coyotes and probably fox (both native gray and imported reds) would just be shot (coyotes always and foxes if they were raiding hen houses). > > I had a cute rabbit fur muff when I was a wee child. Someday, if I can ever talk Mistermage into having rabbits… I’ll make one. I wish my sons were hunters because not only tasty venison/squirrel/turkey but I would love to make and decorate my own set of moccasins and maybe a vest. Um, did you say tasty squirrel? Whoa. I have had squirrel and tasty is not the adjective that comes to mind. Then again, it was roadkill. My father would examine the bodies of the odd rabbit and squirrel he ran over (country roads, lots of woods, these things happen, I don’t THINK he did it on purpose…) and if he deemed the meat “good,” whatever criteria he was applying, he would take it home and eat it. Make room for Daddy! ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossed-paths-with-a-fur-trader/739350/27 "2015-12-04T20:48:37Z")
> [@JcWoman](#): > > I forget what triggered it but last year my boss, who is a cat lover, and I got to talking about furs. I said something about how I prefer the fur on the animal, so she replied (with a smirk) that she had a mink coat. I said really? Yep. Did you know mink coats are made with cat skin? She looked horrified and said really? I let her off the hook and said no, not really. Then we moved on to safer topics. However, I didn’t want to tell her that it [has happened.](http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=1533368) Real environmentalists wear [catskin caps](http://www.abc.net.au/site-archive/rural/legends/stories/7_1.htm) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossed-paths-with-a-fur-trader/739350/28 "2015-12-04T21:18:10Z")
> [@wendigo100](#): > > …she had a thing for teasing me while wearing it with nothing underneath. Sooooo sexxy and yes amazingly soft, but I dunno if I could ever pull one off … If my wife were teasing me by wearing a fur coat and nothing else, you can bet your bottom dollar I’d find a way to pull it off! 😛 [sub]The coat, you dweebs. Pull off the coat.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![wendigo100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/6a8cbe/32.png) [@wendigo100](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wendigo100)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossed-paths-with-a-fur-trader/739350/29 "2015-12-04T22:34:50Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > If my wife were teasing me by wearing a fur coat and nothing else, you can bet your bottom dollar I’d find a way to pull it off! 😛 > > [sub]The coat, you dweebs. Pull off the coat.[/sub] Oh don’t worry I found a way…:DD but seriously, you’ve got to have a little foreplay can’t dive right into it all the time [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossed-paths-with-a-fur-trader/739350.md?page=1)