Over the years interests increased in the
fur industry, and when the fur became more popular
the pelts increased dramatically. This
increased the hunting of wild fur-bearing animals.
In some places the numbers were threatened by
extinction.
Russia, Canada,
and U.S.A were the first three countries to start
breeding animals for fur. T.D. Philips and
W. Woodstock
started one of the first mink farms in the
19th century they are considered the
pioneers of the mink industry.
Fur breeding spread to Europe in 1827, a
company built a fox farm on the outskirts of
Stockholm, the
fox farm started by catching two cross foxes from
the wild.
The fur breeding began in the Scandinavian
countries in 1914, when the first silver fox was
imported from Canada, into
Norway.
In 1928 another 14 Silver Foxes were imported into
Denmark.
Mink followed not too long after for mink
breeding. Around the 1950’s they spread over most
of the northern hemisphere. From 1953 to 1980s the
mink population had increased a
tremerdously.
