Fur (in this country) is an absolute non-essential; leather is more complicated (one can get non-leather shoes, but they have their own environmental cost, etc etc). Maybe that's it too?

I am more squicked by fur than by leather, as well, although that thought process (& the veganism generally) led me to mostly stop wearing leather shoes. Although now I am rethinking that for reasons above; currently my solution is just not to buy any more leather or fake leather shoes until the existing ones fall apart altogether...

I absolutely hate the feel of fur. On a live animal it's lovely, but dead fur feels awful. Wrong and upsetting.