stuffed animals?

[Guest guest]

I missed the photo that featured a stuffed animal. I assume it was

not an actual dead animal that had been stuffed (if it was, never

mind), but a fake, a child's toy.

 

If it was a fake, I don't understand the objection.

[Guest guest]

Hi Yarrow

 

It wasn't a child's toy - it was a couple of tigers and a lion, set up

" fighting " - they looked like genuinely dead, stuffed animals. I agree that

child's toy type fakes would not be at all offensive!

 

BB

Peter

 

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<yarrow

 

Sunday, June 03, 2007 7:27 AM

stuffed animals?

 

 

> I missed the photo that featured a stuffed animal. I assume it was

> not an actual dead animal that had been stuffed (if it was, never

> mind), but a fake, a child's toy.

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> If it was a fake, I don't understand the objection.

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> To send an email to -

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[Guest guest]

I was at a restaurant along the highway that was filled with numerous taxidermiedanimals. They were a collection from a dentist/big game hunter. It was an amazing collection and the animals were well taxidermied. That being said, what a waste of living things, just for the sport. He could have taken up tennis or raquetball? But he decided to blast every living thing that he could just to show off to his friends. I guess that I just don't understand that's all. I mean no offence nor to be judgemental. After all, to each his ownI guess. I just don't like it that animals are treated like some worthless carcass to be used for whatever tickles one's fancy. I've kept the picture because it's humorous to me. There's all these animals fighting and I am standing in the middle all relaxed. metalscarab <metalscarab wrote: Hi YarrowIt wasn't a child's toy - it was a couple of tigers and a lion, set up"fighting" - they looked like genuinely dead, stuffed animals. I agree thatchild's toy type fakes would not be at all offensive!BBPeter-<yarrowSunday, June 03, 2007 7:27 AM stuffed animals?> I missed the photo that featured a stuffed animal. I assume it was> not an actual dead animal that had been stuffed (if it was,

never> mind), but a fake, a child's toy.>> If it was a fake, I don't understand the objection.>>> To send an email to - >

[Guest guest]

[[ It was an amazing collection and the animals were well taxidermied. That being said, what a waste of living things, just for the sport.]]

 

Please don't automatically assume that every taxidermied animal was killed for that purpose. Many of them were in fact found dead. I was a biology major in college and I collected a lot of dead animals such as birds that died of natural causes during the migration; we used them to take measurements and to practice mounting ("stuffing") them. The data gathered that way is important to preserving wildlife, NOT destroying it. Of course there are "sports" hunters who have the animals they shoot mounted, but you can just as easily practice taxidermy on an animal that is already dead. There are people like Roy Rogers who even had their dead pets "stuffed."

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I can never understand the liking for stuffed dead things. I always

find it a bit yukky, and spooky.

 

Jo

 

, " Oom Yaaqub " <oomyaaqub wrote:

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> [[ It was an amazing collection and the animals were well

taxidermied. That being said, what a waste of living things, just for

the sport.]]

>

> Please don't automatically assume that every taxidermied animal was

killed for that purpose. Many of them were in fact found dead. I was a

biology major in college and I collected a lot of dead animals such as

birds that died of natural causes during the migration; we used them

to take measurements and to practice mounting ( " stuffing " ) them. The

data gathered that way is important to preserving wildlife, NOT

destroying it. Of course there are " sports " hunters who have the

animals they shoot mounted, but you can just as easily practice

taxidermy on an animal that is already dead. There are people like Roy

Rogers who even had their dead pets " stuffed. "

>

[Guest guest]

[[i can never understand the liking for stuffed dead things. I always find it a bit yukky, and spooky.Jo]]

 

Autopsies are yukky too, but they were essential for scientific progress and are still essential for crime solving purposes. I tried to explain that we did this in the interests of science, and that we never actually killed an animal, we found them dead.

[Guest guest]

I don't find autopsies yukky - unless you preserve them and keep them as ornaments afterwards, of course.

 

Jo

 

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Oom Yaaqub

Tuesday, June 05, 2007 6:07 PM

Re: Re: stuffed animals?

 

 

[[i can never understand the liking for stuffed dead things. I always find it a bit yukky, and spooky.Jo]]

 

Autopsies are yukky too, but they were essential for scientific progress and are still essential for crime solving purposes. I tried to explain that we did this in the interests of science, and that we never actually killed an animal, we found them dead.