Members of the animal rights group PETA will go "nearly naked" Thursday in Downtown Boise to protest the trapping of animals for fur.

The "Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" demonstration will begin at noon on the northwest corner of North Eighth and Main streets in Boise. PETA activists, who will be wearing nothing more than underwear, say they plan to "cuddle up" in a bed on a public sidewalk holding signs reading "Fur–Out, Love–In."

The group says that animals trapped for fur suffer excruciating pain before they are killed by trappers, some of whom step on the animals' chests or break their necks. They also don't look favorably on fur farms — they believe conditions of the animals' lives and deaths are poor, including tiny, filthy cages and death by neck-breaking, poison or anal electrocution.