History Main / LiveMinkCoat

[[caption-width-right:350:[[VideoGame/BrawlStars Lola]] can learn a thing or two.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[VideoGame/BrawlStars Lola]] can learn a thing or two..]]

-->-- "Warmhearted" by '''Creator/ShelSilverstein'''

* Guy from ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods'' wears his pet sloth Belt as ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. The sequel introduces another accessorized sloth (Sash), as well as [[spoiler: that Granny's "hair" is actually a living, gliding creature, Wigasus]].

* In ''Literature/BrothersInArms'', there's a live genetically-engineered fur blanket that "feeds" on light, so it doesn't even have a head, and appears nonliving until it's touched. Knowing that it's alive ends up being a plot point.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': Nanny Ogg takes her cat Greebo to the opera in ''Literature/{{Maskerade}}'', and wears him around her neck. Someone later comments that her fur stole is eating someone's food in another seat.

* In ''[[Literature/MythAdventures Myth-Quoted]]'', one of the Tipp campaign managers wears a fur coat that's actually a bunch of living rodents. She insists they're loyal to her when M.Y.T.H. Inc. speculates that they might be the ones leaking candidates' dirty laundry to the press.
* In ''[[Literature/OutboundFlight Survivor's Quest]]'' the Geroons come aboard the ''Chaf Envoy'' wearing furs. [[spoiler:When they reveal themselves as the [[PlanetLooters planet-looting]] Vagaari, they remove stasis devices from the furs, which come to life as vicious animals that the Vagaari promptly sic on the Chiss delegation.]]
* In Harry Harrison's ''Literature/WestOfEden'', the [[LizardFolk Yilanè]] use a fur-bearing animal as a cloak. One spin-off, set during a particularly bad cold snap, has one lament "We can't breed our cloaks fast enough!"

* Not seen, but joked about in an episode of ''Series/TheGoldenGirls''. The ladies decide to start up a business where they breed minks for fur. Dorothy mentions some surprise that FriendToAllLivingThings Rose was OK with it. When Rose asks if the minks really ''have'' to be killed, Sophia quickly snaps, "No, Rose, many women like wearing coats that urinate!"

* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Bio-Tech'' has the "skullcat" as an example of a bio-gadget. It's a feline genetically engineered into a hat. Its body temperature keeps your head warm and it purrs soothingly.

* Prison warden Patricia Roland from ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Ace Attorney Investigations 2]]'' wears a live silver fox around her neck which acts as an ExpressiveAccessory. [[spoiler:Her VillainousBreakdown reveals that her large "fur coat" is also composed entirely of live foxes, who all simultaneously decide to jump off her body at once]].

[[quoteright:330:[[Webcomic/KevinAndKell https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/living_mink_coat_1141.jpg]]]]

* Nanny Ogg takes her cat Greebo to the opera in ''Literature/{{Maskerade}}'', and wears him around her neck. Someone later comments that her fur stole is eating someone's food in another seat.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' episode "Gargamel's Sweetheart", Evelyn the witch wears her pet weasel around her neck like a stole.

* In a fairly creepy Hanes [=ComfortBlend=] commercial, a man wears live kittens instead of a shirt. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI_cy9hK7XI See it here]].

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'', the teenage girl Charlene gets a stole which is a real mink-like creature. The stole is very snooty and [[ToxicFriendInfluence starts telling her which friends are not high-class enough to be friends of "theirs"]]. In the end Charlene decides some fashions just aren't worth it.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "Gargamel's Sweetheart", Evelyn the witch wears her pet weasel around her neck like a stole.

* ''TabletopGame{{GURPS}} Bio-Tech'' has the "skullcat" as an example of a bio-gadget. It's a feline genetically engineered into a hat. Its body temperature keeps your head warm and it purrs soothingly.

** In an episode of the anime, Usagi uses the Disguise Pen to put herself in fancy clothes for sneaking in a posh reception... and she wears a disgruntled Luna around her neck as a fur stole.

* Not seen, but joked about in an episode of ''Series/TheGoldenGirls.'' The ladies decide to start up a business where they breed minks for fur. Dorothy mentions some surprise that FriendToAllLivingThings Rose was OK with it. When Rose asks if the minks really ''have'' to be killed, Sophia quickly snaps, "No, Rose, many women like wearing coats that urinate!"
* Once in ''Series/{{Mongrels}}'', Nelson spends some time pretending to be a fox stole for some celebrity in order to retrieve his girlfriend's corpse that she had been wearing.

[[folder:Webcomics]]

* In a set of ''WebComic/TwoKinds'' spinoff comics, a half-dragon girl wears her half-brother as living clothes.

The fox that she wears is still'' alive.''"''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' went through loads of character designs in its DevelopmentHell, one even giving Elsa a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/elsa_in_ermine.jpg coat of live ermines]].
* A strange case in ''Film/ArthurAndTheInvisibles'', where the Minimoy King's royal apparel includes a (quite living) white ferret-like creature clinging to him to simulate a long beard.

* In ''Literature/BrothersInArms'', there's a live genetically-engineered fur blanket that "feeds" on light, so it doesn't even have a head, and appears nonliving until it's touched. Knowing that it's alive ends up being a plot point.

* In ''[[Literature/MythAdventures Myth-Quoted]]'', one of the Tipp campaign managers wears a fur coat that's actually a bunch of living rodents. She insists they're loyal to her when M.Y.T.H. Inc. speculates that they might be the ones leaking candidates' dirty laundry to the press.

[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'', the teenage girl Charlene gets a stole which is a real mink-like creature. The stole is very snooty and [[ToxicFriendInfluence starts telling her which friends are not high-class enough to be friends of "theirs"]]. In the end Charlene decides some fashions just aren't worth it.
* Once in ''Series/{{Mongrels}}'', Nelson spends some time pretending to be a fox stole for some celebrity in order to retrieve his girlfriend's corpse that she had been wearing.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Comics]]

* In ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'', Kell's mother, Elanor, tries day trading, and [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/1999/kk1110.html makes enough]] to actually [[ConspicuousConsumption pay minks to be a coat for her]]. She later makes a bad stock and trades it for a BankruptcyBarrel.

* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': One of the minor characters, Ted Viking, wears a talking fox scarf named Foxy around his neck.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Run Run Away", Candace [[ImagineSpot imagines herself being a model]], and we see a shot of her in {{Fashion Magazine}}s, including one where she is wearing a white cat around her neck.

* In one ''WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther'' cartoon, the Panther, having blow-dried his fur fluffy, crashes a banquet by letting himself be worn as a stole.

* In an older WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck cartoon, a bear trying to escape hunters disguises himself as the bearskin rug in a hunter(Donald, natch)'s cabin. After Donald finally leaves, it turns out the original rug, which the bear had stuffed in a trunk, was another bear who had the idea first.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'' cartoon "Fox Pop" (1942), a fox overhears a radio announcement that fox furs are fashionable that season. The fox immediately imagines a woman wearing him, wrapped (alive) around her neck.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has a "WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror" segment that parodies ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau'', where Dr. Hibbert transforms several characters into animals. One scene has him wearing a fox around his neck, which is actually a transformed Mr. Burns.

* ''Film/GhostbustersII'' has a freaky scene where the evil slime terrorizes New York, and one poor lady in a fur coat steps into the slime and has the coat come alive, turning into a pack of pissed-off minks.

* ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' went through loads of character designs in its DevelopmentHell, one even giving Elsa a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/elsa_in_ermine.jpg coat of live ermines]].

* Nanny Ogg takes her cat Greebo to the opera in ''Discworld/{{Maskerade}}'', and wears him around her neck. Someone later comments that her fur stole is eating someone's food in another seat.

[[folder:Theater]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'' cartoon ''Fox Pop'' (1942), a fox overhears a radio announcement that fox furs are fashionable that season. The fox immediately imagines a woman wearing him, wrapped (alive) around her neck.

* In a set of ''WebComic/TwoKinds'' spinoff comics, a half-dragon girl wears her half-brother as living clothes