Thursday July 10, 2008, 1:58 pm
great news for a change!!

Thursday July 10, 2008, 2:08 pm
great news!!! thanks for sharing this

Thursday July 10, 2008, 3:10 pm
Woo Hoo! This is indeed great news! Thanks Daphne for posting!

Thursday July 10, 2008, 4:26 pm
That's great. The company is a good source for all types of products so it's good to know I can continue to shop there!

Thursday July 10, 2008, 7:40 pm
Good for them Thanks for this great news Daphne. It's so refreshing to see good for a change. Noted with a smile.

Friday July 11, 2008, 8:00 am
Thank you Daphne for this news, perhaps more will follow this example.

Friday July 11, 2008, 3:19 pm
This is great new's even though I don't have the money to shop there lol!!! but I do watch it now and then but my hubby loves it, how about that!!!

Friday July 11, 2008, 9:08 pm
Fur sure: Overstock.com stops selling "dog" pelts
Overstock.com went fur-free on Thursday -- but not until after discovering that some of the "raccoon fur" it was selling was actually made from "dogs."

The Salt Lake City-based Internet retailer was advised of the substitutions in a letter from the Humane Society of the United States, which detailed numerous other atrocities allegedly committed by "fur factories" and urged the company to stop selling pelts.

"The more we heard about the fur industry, the more we realized we didn't want anything to do with it," said Patrick Byrne, chairman and CEO of Overstock.com, is quoted as saying in an article in yesterday's Salt Lake Tribune.

Byrne said Overstock.com estimates it will lose up to $5 million in pelt revenues.

Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the HSUS, said the decision will pay off in the long run. "While there is this cost, it's our hope that when companies make socially responsible decisions, they attract the support of humane-minded consumers," he said. "Corporate social responsibility must include animal welfare. We have options in our society; we can do better than to kill animals for their fur."

Over the past three winters, the HSUS says it has identified dozens of falsely advertised or falsely labeled garments -- 70 percent of which contained fur from the raccoon dog, an Asian member of the canid family that is commonly skinned in China for its fur.

Among the false names used for raccoon dog fur are: faux fur, ecological fur, polyester, coyote, rabbit, Canis latranis, raccoon and finni raccon.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/features/mutts/blog/2008/07/fur_sure_overstockcom_learns_i.html

Friday July 11, 2008, 10:47 pm
Glad to hear it! Thanks Daphne.

Saturday July 12, 2008, 11:38 am
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1027686220080711

Friday September 5, 2008, 4:47 am
This is great news for a change!! Overjoyed to hear it - I had started to think that there was no hope left, on this issue.

Friday September 5, 2008, 4:47 am
This is great news for a change!! Overjoyed to hear it - I had started to think that there was no hope left, on this issue.