VintageGent’s Menswear Daily

Winter Is Coming: Someone May Need Your Fur

Winter is around the corner.  Many folks have men’s fur hats, and fur coats that they have been passed down from grandpa or grandma that they will never wear. Fur hats have not been on the fashion radar for men in quite some years unless you live about the arctic circle.  And the style that might have flattered grandma might not fit or flatter granddaughter.  Many folks will also not wear animal fur period. While many vintage items go on to new and exciting lives, these types of items are usually passed down, only to stay hidden in a dark closet.

What to do with them?

One very great cause is to offer them for wildlife rehabilitation programs. There are a variety of species, from the endangered who folks are trying to help thrive, to injured adults, to more common wildlife such as squirrel, raccoon, and fox who are orphaned by mom getting hit by a car, or their tree being chopped down and falling from their nest. Having a pelt of the animal fur allows rehabilitators to have a “hands off” approach with young animals so they do not imprint to humans, but to their own species, if they have a chance of being released back into their environment.  They an put a heating pad behind it and put a bottle through a hole that they make so the young one feels the warm fur of their species against them instead of being imprinted by humans.

What to do with them?

One very great cause is to offer them for wildlife rehabilitation programs. There are a variety of species, from the endangered who folks are trying to help thrive, to injured adults, to more common wildlife such as squirrel, raccoon, and fox who are orphaned by mom getting hit by a car, their tree being chopped down and falling from their nest. It allows rehabilitators to have a “hands off” approach with young animals so they do not imprint to humans, but to their own species, if they have a chance of being released back into their environment.

If you would like to find out more, please visit the Humane Society of the United States.here. If you are in California, Nevada, Texas, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, New York, and Philadelphia, the Buffalo exchange will start accepting furs very soon up through most of April. I will have more detailed information when the time comes nearer.