Does Anybody Want To Buy A Dead Squirrel?

Crowqueen

porto_bello wrote: »

It's nice to know I'm not alone in being turned off by the sight of dead animals on display - I just don't get the attraction of corpses, whatever the member of the animal kingdom.

At a London art gallery, on exhibition, I saw a draw from a chest, filled to the brim with concrete, topped with a stuffed squirrel, face down, half-submerged in the concrete.

I knew the staff on reception, and as I turned to speak to them, they burst out laughing, one commenting "Don't ask! We only work on reception - we don't select this stuff!"

Don't go to UCL then and see Jeremy Bentham stuffed in his glass cabinet...

On a serious note I have to agree, other people may not mind but I personally don't like it, particularly the super-squirrel with the zip. I cringe at the animal mausoleums which most local museums have because they have all the mounted Victorian animals that they don't know what to do with. Kind of makes a mockery of the idea many have for an 'ecology' or 'environmental' exhibit simply to use cases full of mouldering barn owls or pinned butterflies.

I don't doubt there are people who still do it and are creative with it, it's just not my thing.

I prefer to go to petting zoos and aquariums to see environmental exhibits, not morgues.

csnann

I have just been looking through the taxidermy section on ebay and found this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TAXIDERMY-UNMOUNTED-BABY-DUCKLINGS-ONLY-10-EACH-/230762580584?pt=UK_Collectables_AnimalCollectables_SM&hash=item35ba858a68 now that IS nasty!

porto_bello

csnann wrote: »

I have just been looking through the taxidermy section on ebay and found this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TAXIDERMY-UNMOUNTED-BABY-DUCKLINGS-ONLY-10-EACH-/230762580584?pt=UK_Collectables_AnimalCollectables_SM&hash=item35ba858a68 now that IS nasty!

I note in the description "Ideal for Easter displays"!

More like 'ideal for provoking displays of grief-strcken children'.

pulliptears

porto_bello wrote: »

I note in the description "Ideal for Easter displays"!

More like 'ideal for provoking displays of grief-strcken children'.

Depends on the child I imagine. My sis in law used to run a pest control business with birds of prey, DD would have been probably 5 or 6 when she used to head down to the sheds with her Aunt and feed the birds with dead chicks or mice. Didn't phase her in the slightest.