1989: Janet
It was to have been a freezer room door that slammed, not the door on PETA volunteer Sam Holtgraver's truck. But Janet's destiny took a lucky turn when she was rescued from imminent slaughter as a victim of the ugly wool industry: Young lambs' ears are hole-punched, their tails are chopped off, and males are castrated without painkillers just weeks after they are born. Sheep are sheared before they would naturally shed their coats, so hundreds of thousands die of exposure every year. Unwanted lambs and sheep are sent to slaughter.
For Janet, leaving her parents and her three siblings was terrible enough. The first night at PETA's Aspin Hill Sanctuary & Memorial Park, she leaped from the porch, jumped the fence, and tried to escape, bleating for her family. But the pain of separation faded soon enough, and Janet quickly became part of Aspin Hill's odd little flock.
Fabrics like cotton, cotton flannel, polyester fleece, and innovative synthetic fibers, such as Gore-Tex, Polarguard, Polartec, and Thinsulate, cost less, can be cleaned very easily, and spare sheep, who are all as spirited and lovable as our Janet was.
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