professional bad example

now i get to find out whether i have the skills to repair real fur. bought what's supposedly a mink jacket (i honestly don't care what precisely it is, just that it is very nice and soft) for 16€ including shipping. looked fine on the pictures, the seller had written that they were selling it as crafts material, i assumed that they'd done so because they didn't think anyone would actually want to wear vintage fur as is. but in real life, there's a Y-shaped 10 cm tear on the lower right of the back that wasn't visible on the pictures. i guess the seller might've purposely laid it out in a way that hid the damage, but in any case i don't feel like chasing after them and trying to get my money back on something that i didn't pay much for in the first place, so repair attempt it is...

i guess the best approach would probably be use a thread in a very closely matched colour, use a handsewn butted seam and hope that the hairs are long enough to hide the stitches