Please write to make a difference, this is very sad, exploting a beautiful creature!

[Uabassoon]

I have a deer head to. His name is Jimmy, he's made of plastic and is inflatable. He hangs in the guest room.

[Soledad]

That's hilarious!

[All Creatures Great And Small]

Originally posted by Uabassoon
I have a deer head to. His name is Jimmy, he's made of plastic and is inflatable. He hangs in the guest room.

Okay, rolling on the floor, tears in the eyes, almost wetting myself LAUGHING at Jimmy!!!!!!!!!!!! Man, do I wish I had one of those! I can think of some pretty good pranks I could pull on my family.......my husband has the "real thing" in the family room (over my objections), and I like to hang stupid things from it's antlers in the hopes that he'll get tired of it and take the thing up to our cottage, where it would be more appropriate. One day I'd like to replace it with "Jimmy" and see what he thinks - LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[COCatMama]

I won't lie....I think hunting is just plain wrong for many reasons not the least of which is that wilderness is threatened by us humans. Also, I don't think hunting is fair because hunters use big guns and sights. I hate the way people treat animals grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[Corinna]

Nice buck and agood job on the work.I have eaten bear, moose elk, and MT.LION. I haven't tried squirrel, eat rabbit that I raise for meat. I too don't appove of trophy hunting, but it happens and when it's one of our clients , I get the meat and give it to people on my list. I have some welfare moms and poeple who have a child with enviormental diease (cant eat any processed foods) . The food banks here also take the meat and have it done up to give out.
My hubby did a great wolvrine for his final project at school 6 years ago. He's on a rock (mache') lookimg over his shoulder with a serine look. He got him from a trapper in Idaho. We have about 15 fish too. The living room is the show room. I can't tell you how many marriage offers I get. Most wives say 1 you only get 1, then they see our house and the guys go nuts.
I don't hunt but I like the walking in the outdoors. I go along to help pack out. Hubby has limited use of left arm from the cancer. 19 year old can't haul out the big ones we get here. Hes more a fish guy the 21 year old daughter the hunter.

[All Creatures Great And Small]

Oh yes, it's a very beautiful buck, indeed. The problem is, our family room is only about 10 x 10 feet (the whole house is tiny), and it's decorated in Early American and antiques, courtesy of his parents, so the deer head just doesn't "go with" the room. The cottage, on the other hand, has a high ceiling, beams, and a totally rustic decor, so I think the buck would look so much better up there. It just looks bizarre in that tiny room, like it crashed through the wall by accident or something . It took a long time to get because the taxidermist took sick in the middle of it (I think he had pneumonia or something of that nature) and couldn't work on it for several months. I know there's a long wait at any taxidermist in Wisconsin, since it's very popular up here! (By the way, my husband would probably be one of those offering a proposal, because a woman who goes into the woods with him would be considered a goddess! I'm just not an outdoors person, I guess.)

[wolf_Q]

I HATE taxidermy...that said, bobcat hunting is not illegal, and neither is taxidermy.

My friend's dad is a total "trophy hunter." He has TONS of deer, elk, antelope, and even a cougar rug, foxes, raccoons, a full-bodied mountain goat, buffalo head, moose head....etc. etc. etc. They freak me out. I don't like the eyes. Like I said, I just plain don't like taxidermy or trophy hunting.

My family hunts deer and elk. *I* do not hunt of course (do enjoy the hike, not the rest of it though). They have never killed more than one animal in a year (as with my friend's family, its at least 5 deer/elk per year w/ all of her brothers, not counting other animals) and we ALWAYS eat the meat. My friend's family takes the meat home, but I have NEVER seen them eat any of it.

[COCatMama]

I think it's probably bad karma to have a bunch of dead animal bits around the house, I do have a bear skull which my ex bf *found* and gave to me, I wonder if it's bad karma too even tho we did not kill the bear?

[ramanth]

YYL: That is a beautiful mount.

Ubassoon: LOL!! I love that! I need to get one for my dad, where did you find it?

My parents have two deer head mounts. One upstairs in the living room and one downstairs. They would both be upstairs but the second buck is looking the wrong way. My parents hunt whitetail only and we always eat the meat.

I've seen deer/car accidents... not pretty.....rather hunt them and eat them then splatter them across my hood.

[Ann]

As for taxidermy: Look at Norman Bates. NUFF SAID!

Incase you couldn't figure it out; the above was a joke

I despise and hate hunting with all my being. Unless you do it like other animals and kill only for meat and survival purposes I find it disgusting and wrong.

As for whoever it was that said it was okay to hunt wild cats because they can hurt kids, I have only one thing to say to you: Move. They were there before you, humans are the ones building houses and chopping down forests to put up another McDonalds, they are not the ones going into your original homes and shooting your kids to display their skin on their mantle.

That's all I have to say.

[luckies4me]

For those who eat deer and elk, are you not afraid of catching that disease that makes you crazy? I don't remember what it is called but ...oh yes, mad cow disease. They carry something very similar and some people have already been infected. Just a little too scary for me.

[ramanth]

I'm already crazy....

[luckies4me]

Originally posted by ramanth
I'm already crazy....

LOL! You got me there!

[Uabassoon]

Ubassoon: LOL!! I love that! I need to get one for my dad, where did you find it?

I wish I could answer that, but Jimmy came with the house. When I moved in this house there were lots of things already in here, like a lazy boy recliner, a tv that I could never afford... and Jimmy. We thought he was cute so we kept him around. My landlord has an inflatable Moose head in her room. Next time I see her I'll ask where she got them.

[Ann]

luckies4me, I'm pretty sure that the mad cow disease comes only in what it's name points to; cows. I think it has something to do with bad cow food or something along those lines... I remember hearing a lot about this when the UK had big trouble with it. Of course, I could be way off!

Uabassoon, I adore Jimmy