A volunteer approached the shop to make sure they were still selling the barbaric toys and was suprised to find that they had been put on a half price offer because after all, who would pay the extreme prices Nauticalia were charging for murder in a basket?

The protesters brought with them Nauticalia placards and a couple of megaphones today to inform everyone in the local area and outside the shop exactly why they were there. We had a great response from the speeches which were given with people remarking time and time again that they could hear us ever us loud and clear outside the shop and it was convincing people not to shop in a place which sells a souvenir so cruel, that the farms which produce fur were banned in the UK in 2003.

The SARC bunny even had a go letting everyone know exactly what the Portsmouth Tourist scene tucks away in this dingy little corner of the Historic Dockyard, she also bounced around teaching children why respecting animals is important and posing for tourist photographs. The protesters (and the bunny) passed out hundreds of leaflets over the lunchtime rush and filled pages and pages of petitions.

The heat is now on, not only for Nauticalia to take the vile creatures off their shelves, but for The Portsmouth Historic Dockyard to adopt a fur free policy. Campaigns like this don't fizzle out. They get stronger, until all the fur is gone.