I'm tired and I'm so sick of fur, after visiting one of Richmond's Chinese shopping malls.
This place was called 'Parker Place Mall', located in the heart of
downtown(of Richmond).
Yumiko came along again and we went into more than 20 fashion boutiques.
All of them sold fur, lots and lots of them, coats, vests, trimmings and
accessories, some cheap and some expensive. The colorful and stylish fur
items revealed that they were the hottest trend for the season.
After examining many, I would say about a half of them were fake and the
rest were unmistakably real.
However, with an exception of one store where most goods had 4 digit price
tag, we were told that all the real fur was 'rabbit', nothing else. The
store clerks' answers were automatically the same. They had no idea or
genuinely believed it so, but too much repeating of word 'rabbit' made me
imagine a big massacre of rabbits happening in China.

The whole experience was bizzare and overwhelming.
I planned to buy one or two items, but the uncertainty of DNA test for fur
made me think twice, everytime I picked an item.
I had to be sure it was 'real fur but not rabbit' , which was also tough to
distinguish.

We finally found a very strange purse covered with thick fur, which again
the salesperson explained as rabbit.
But with this particular one, Yumiko noticed right away that it wasn't. The
fur looked natural(not dyed) with markings of tabby cat(sort of black and
brown stripe).
Does a rabbit with tabby coating ever exist?
I was so freaked out at this point that I had to leave for a gasp of fresh
air.
The labels of most of the merchandise were totally, ridicuously false. So
it is a big fraud.