Because we just love the fur-addicted Trollsen Twins sooooooo much, we were dead excited when we heard that they’d be in New York yesterday, just blocks from the PETA US office there, doing a signing of their new book, Influence. (As far as we can tell, the book has to be a series of photographs of either Cruella De Vil or Anna Wintour - not that you can tell the difference). So, PETA US decided to pay them a little visit. Figuring that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, they all put on their scary Trollsens masks (well, it is nearly Halloween), and off they went.

Would you believe that Hairy-Kate and Trashley wouldn’t even stop to talk with the masked crusaders? Shameful, really - but what do you expect from girls who continue to promote the cruel and toxic fur industry, even after being given all the facts? The protesters did get to talk to their fans though (who knew they had fans?) and showed a lot of people the truth about the fur-loving Trollsens’ “Full House of Horrors.”

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are no doubt preparing furiously for their 22nd birthday on Friday, but I doubt they are expecting parcels of human hair to arrive in the morning post with all their cards. Peta2 US are encouraging their supporters to send the fur-wearing twins snippets of their own hair with a note saying, “Please, use my hair instead of the animals’. Happy Birthday.”

There’s a hilarious ‘Hairy-Kate and Trashley Trollsen’ campaign, which points out that you can’t flaunt fur after being told what happens on fur farms and not expect some kind of backlash. These so-called style icons contribute to an industry in which animals languish for days in steel-jaw traps before their chests are stomped on or their necks are broken by trappers. On fur farms, animals spend their entire lives in cramped, filthy cages before they are killed by poisoning, gassing, anal electrocution, or neck-breaking. In China – which by the way is now the world’s leading fur exporter, including into the UK – animals, including cats and dogs, are sometimes skinned alive. Yeah, well stylish girls.

Happy Birthday indeed.