In your opinion is this considered Animal Cruelty?
If you include the fact that your killing an innocent animal, beheading it, and mounting it on the wall to make it have a "life-like" appearance to impress people? It is considered as a form of "art"
If so then why are they encouraging children to practise this?
I don't see a problem with it if the animal died of natural causes (I realise that this is probably rare) and used for educational purposes such as in a museum etc, because it gives people a chance to get up close to animals they would usually be able to.
That's the only exception IMO, anything else is just the same as hunting, pointless displays of how "macho" you are. If I visited a house with deer heads on the wall, I'd be out of there in two seconds.
I don't see a problem with it if the animal died of natural causes (I realise that this is probably rare) and used for educational purposes such as in a museum etc, because it gives people a chance to get up close to animals they would usually be able to.
That's the only exception IMO, anything else is just the same as hunting, pointless displays of how "macho" you are. If I visited a house with deer heads on the wall, I'd be out of there in two seconds.
Yeah, i saw a page somewhere of a group of hunters who consider it an art use them as prizes...
I don't like this. Its just people showing off the animals they have managed to kill. If the animal died of natural causes, then thats fine, I suppose, but there is something creepy with having a stuffed dead animal in your living room (in my opinion).
would you stuff your mum if she died too? Taxidermy is gross, photos and video can show us what something (like a fancy bird of prey) looks like better than real-to-life corpse in your living space with its guts carefully replaced with soemthing that doesnt rot. How disgusting. Creates insensitivity to animals and life, do we stuff our dead? no we bury them. The Nazis made lamp shades out of the skins of the Jewish people... people who have stuffed animals as house decorations... ? all too gross... all sounds similair and i have no clue why you would want one. lots of people joke about stuffing their pets when they die... i dont get it
I don't like the idea of making a once living thing into a trophy, or a household decoration. In a nuthsell, I think animals should be burried/said-goodbye-to with respect.
Whilst no one gets hurt, its the reaffirmation of the property status of animals. We can do what we like with them; when they're alive and when they've passed.
To me, human and non-human animal life is sacred. I find no reason to not include death in my personal definition of 'life.'
The only taxidermy I'm okay with is Rowdy on Scrubs.
And that's fictional anyway!
Just like I find it difficult to look at a leg of ham or a sausage, that stuffed animal was once alive and breathing, and had its life taken for something un-necessary. I would really like to know what was going through the head of the first person to practise this!
ah, as soon as i saw this topic i new the perfect quote for it
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. ~ Ellen DeGeneres
Yay for an awesome quote .. hmmm, this may sound weird but i now of some people who's much loved family pets have died and because the just couldnt part with them, they had then mounted/stuffed/wateva. Like that guy scott from domestic blitz, when his cattle dog lizzy died he had her stuffed :S So i guess thats okay? in a weird way, but im total against people killing 'trophy animals' an mounted them on walls and stuff .. Yuk.
I cant help but think about that Jackass skit where knoxville convinces a taxidermy that he wanted his grandma stuffed when she dies. The taxidermy agreed with the deal!
Anyway, I dont see any aesthetic quality of having a dead animal head hanging on your wall. Photos and paintings are nice enough (Y)
