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My group has chosen the animal, Ocelot. After reading the passage about why ocelot is endangered, I know that Ocelot is well known in South American. This is because its pelt being the mainstay of the fur trade and for the fact that it was frequently kept as a pet. I was thinking why would people want to keep them as pets? They are carnivores that mean they will bite anything they see. They also have sharp claws which will damage people’s furniture and scratch everywhere. Imagine how the house would be. Back in the 1980’s, Ocelot fur coats are sold for $40,000.00 and the live animal as a pet is sold for $800.00. It is so expensive, no wonder everyone wants to hunt this rare Ocelot. This was the main reason why ocelots are endangered because their skins were so valuable. At that point of time, more than 200,000 ocelots were killed per year for their coats. So Poor thing. Today, with laws prohibiting hunting for the fur trade, there are no Ocelot coats for sale, and the "pet" Ocelot is a thing of the past. At Easy Street, they have turned down offers of $15,000.00 for just one of coat!

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Wow! People are just dying to get that coat. What have human done to the ocelots? Have they ever wonder that they are wearing skins of an animal. The ocelots scarified themselves for the sake of making coats? What a ridiculous way of dying. Ocelots are skinned and turn into clothes! What if human are skinned is turned in coats? Majority, people would say “I don’t want to do it as it is very painful”. But the Ocelots are forced to be skinned! They cannot even shout “I don’t want to do it, please leave me alone!” I pity those ocelots.

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I suggest that if you want to buy a handbag or any clothes, please buy those that the material is made of other things besides animals’ skin. I once saw a snake's skin handbag. It looked so gross that I do not even dare to touch it. Keep in mind that do not buy animal skinned handbag or any animal skinned clothing. [359 words]

i got this information at http://www.bigcatrescue.org/cats/wild/ocelot.htm