Portland's last downtown furrier has taken a novel approach to anti-fur protesters outside his salon: He won restraining orders by accusing them of abusing him because he is elderly.



Horst Grimm, 75, obtained the orders in July and August against four protesters, and a judge has agreed to hear more arguments on the case Nov. 4.



Grimm owns Nicholas Ungar Furs at Southwest Yamhill Street and 12th Avenue. Protesters have been holding daily vigils there since January, and they said Friday that their goal is to open a discussion with Grimm about his trade, even though, "We have a no-compromise ethic," said Josh Freya, 24.



The protesters have been chanting anti-fur slogans and carrying signs -- "Stop the killing!" "Leave the fur on the animals!"



The Ungar protests began a year after Schumacher Furs closed its downtown store after a 15-month anti-fur campaign that was rancorous and combative. But Detective Mary Wheat of the Portland Police Bureau said no one has been arrested protesting at the Ungar salon.



"There have been some complaints from neighbors about noise," Wheat said. "And there has been some criminal mischief, paint and that sort of thing."



Ungar Furs has been in business for 50 years. In 2005, Grimm agreed to pay a $40,000 fine for selling a coat made from jaguar, an endangered species.



At the Ungar salon Friday, Grimm and his son, Kai, declined comment about the protests or the restraining orders.



In July, Horst Grimm asked for the orders against Jeffrey John Wirth and Justin R. Kay; in late August, Grimm asked for orders against Andrea August Parson and Jonathan Waylon Brooks. Grimm took out the orders in Clackamas County, where he lives.



Freya said the four people named in the orders have been protesting and chanting outside the Ungar salon.



In each case, Grimm invoked Oregon's Elderly Persons and Persons with Disabilities Abuse Prevention Act, saying that the protesters were abusing him because of his age. Wirth and Kay were ordered to stay 150 feet away from Grimm.



At a Thursday hearing in Clackamas County Circuit Court, Judge Kenneth Stewart extended the orders until a Nov. 4 hearing. He lifted the 150-foot restriction, but he told the four protesters that they could not speak to Grimm. Freya said the protesters stopped their daily chanting to abide by Stewart's order.



