Every year sealers bludgeon seals with clubs and "hakapiks" (clubs with a metal hook on the end), drag conscious seals across the ice floes with boat hooks, and toss dead and dying animals into heaps and leave their carcasses to rot because there is no market for their meat. Seals are also shot, but bludgeoning is preferred, because pelt buyers deduct money for every bullet hole in a seal's skin. Veterinarians who studied a past hunt concluded that the hunters failed to comply with Canada's basic animal welfare standards and that 42 percent of the seals appeared to have been skinned alive. Despite Canada's 'new and improved' methods being implemented this year, sealers are still slaughtering these pups in the same way they have for previous years. It's unconscionable. For more information, please visit any of the following websites for first-hand accounts and ways *you* can help save the seals. "Sea Shepherd":http://www.seashepherd.org/seals2008 "HSUS":http://www.hsus.org/index-seals.html "Canadian Seal Hunt":http://www.canadiansealhunt.com "Anti-Sealing Coalition":http://www.antisealingcoalition.ca/blog/sealhunt2008.php If you would like to get more involved, please join us here on Red Bubble in the "Voices for Animals":http://www.redbubble.com/voice-for-animals group. The more supporters we have, the louder our collective voice will be!! *** *All proceeds will be donated to "Sea Shepherd":http://seashepherd.org.*