Photo of "chinchilla skinned alive." Nopes. It's just a chinchilla missing some fur.

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Here is a pic of a live chinchilla missing most of it's fur and JLo wearing a chinchilla cost. This chinchilla was not skinned alive. When they skin an animal to make a fur coat they take off all of the skin including fat, capillaries... The chinchilla above still has its skin. It's almost impossible to skin an animal alive. They would fight like hell. If they were skinned alive, they would die from the stress. They would not survive.

This chinchilla was accidentally poisoned with sodium carbonate in its feed. Here is the article about the poisoning and hair loss. Below is the chinchilla sitting on a desk alive with very little fur.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261376998_Sodium_carbonate_intoxication_on_a_chinchilla_Chinchilla_lanigera_farm_A_case_report

Here are pics of the bald chinchilla which is clearly very much alive and has its skin.

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That said we're against fur coats. No one needs a fur coat today. It's cruel to animals.