Friend, there's not much time left.

Cats just like those we share our lives with are facing a living nightmare. Workers bash them on the head or hang them, slit their throats, and strip their fur off so that it can be turned into a gaudy trinket or trim on someone's coat. We must stop this violence—and we need your help.

Give $3 or more to PETA's "Save Our Skin" Matching-Gift Challenge today and it'll double in impact to help stop the abuse of animals for clothing.

We must reach our $250,000 goal by midnight on July 10! Please, don't turn away from suffering cats, dogs, and other animals who need our help. Give now.

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Dear Friend,

A cat in China—much like a sweet, social feline you may know—is peacefully
sunning herself on a doorstep when a stranger grabs her by the scruff of the
neck.

She freezes, terrified, then tries to escape—but the stranger's grip is too
tight. She's shoved into a cramped wire cage on the back of a truck, packed in
so tightly with other abducted cats that she can hardly move.

The truck eventually stops at a crowded, noisy market, and the cages are dropped
to the ground. The cats wail in pain and fear—but workers keep throwing and
kicking the cages.

She's soon roughly yanked out. Her horrifying ordeal ends with a blow to the head and a knife to the throat before she's strung up and skinned for her fur.

No sentient being should ever experience such horrors. Your special gift today to the "Save Our Skin" Matching-Gift Challenge—even as
little as $3—is a powerful way to protect animals from the cruel practices of
the skin trade.

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Cats like these are being sold and killed at live-animal markets in China—grisly
places not unlike the one where the novel coronavirus reportedly originated.

Eyewitnesses have documented as many as 20 cats packed into a single cage—800 or more animals crammed onto a single truck.

The tremendous suffering inherent in the fur and leather industries isn't enough
to stop companies from trying to profit from the sale of animals' skin—often, by
killing these individuals as cheaply and quickly as possible. It's not uncommon
for workers to kill animals by hanging, strangling, or bludgeoning them to
death—and some will even show signs of life as their skin or fur is torn off.

Trinkets and coat trim made from cat and dog fur may be sold at markets in
China, but that's not the only place they're found. Some companies have been
known to mislabel their accessories deliberately in order to dupe unsuspecting
consumers in other countries. If you know anyone who still wears fur, they may very well be wearing the
remains of an abused cat.

By giving just $3 to PETA right now, you'll double your impact to help us do
more to expose and stop such horrifying cruelty.

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The only way to prevent animals from suffering in the fur trade is to persuade
consumers and designers to stop buying fur and other animal-derived
materials—and for 40 years, PETA has been doing just that. No organization has
done more than PETA to encourage big names in fashion to ditch fur, been a
stronger advocate for laws to ban fur farms and fur sales, or inspired more
consumers to choose clothing that no cat, dog, sheep, or other animal suffered
for.

We know what's happening. We know where it's happening. We know how to stop it. We just need your support.

Will you make a gift to the "Save Our Skin" Matching-Gift Challenge right now to
help protect cats and other animals?

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Thank you for your compassion.

Kind regards,

Ingrid E. Newkirk
President
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