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The thought of stuffing my loved ones creeps me out. I have always found mounting an animal's head on a wall highly disrespectful (even with putting aside the fact that the animal was murdered!) and I suppose I feel the same way about natural-death taxidermy. Although it's a spiritual thing to say (and I don't consider myself to be "spiritual"), I believe what dies should return to the Earth, as that is what's natural.
Posing your dead loved one in your house, meshing a memory of a being filled with energy, personality and other positive things with a forever-current experience that their physical essence is now just a simple ornament, well, it just doesn't seem right to me.
Why not just run one of those digital frames with videos and photos of him/her 24/7? That keeps the good parts alive and the memories vivid without the strange remains.
I was asking if people would have thier pets taxidermied to keep them 'with them' and what other burial options they would consider for a passed pet. Not if the act of hunting and taxiderming animals for sport and art was wrong. Now the thread is all confuzzled and makes no sense :/
If you read the posts to the original thread, many provide a response to the question of pets and taxidermy. With your comment in mind, I changed the subtitle
If you read the posts to the original thread, many provide a response to the question of pets and taxidermy. With your comment in mind, I changed the subtitle
apprently its really expensive though so I could probably never afford it, and the thought of doing it and getting it done are two differeent things.
My sisters dog (full brother of my 9 yr old) recently passed away and was cremated....and we've buried many family dogs but I just dont know what ill do with my two
Ive seen the taxidermied or 'stuffed' (as some people call it) wolves in the museum and they're beautiful.
Actually now im looking at my dogs beside me and imagining them stuffed and it is a bit weird :/ I dont know . Good topic to bring up i suppose. I guess when the time comes (God forbid) when they pass Ill look at my options financially and do what feels right
I think taxidermy is wrong. No way would I stuff my dog when she's dead I will stick to cremation. I don't get it when hunters put moose or deer heads on the wall just gross. And a family friend had a stuffed alligator in their bedroom and understandably their kids refused to go into the room knowing there was a stuffed animal in there. Don't blame them at all.
