Why is it acceptable to stuff a dead pet but not a dead relative?

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Surely the kind of people who are comfortable with dusty, dead, glassy eyed stuffed cats propping open doors would be the same kind of people who'd like their dead grandpa immortalised on the armchair?

― Rumpy Pumpkin, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/portrait/bentham-dead.jpg

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

They fear the temptations of necrophilia.

(I SO resisted mentioned Bentham.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

The answer in a word: Fur.

So it might be acceptable to stuff the back of a skull or part of a groin.

― diedre mousedropping (Dave225), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

ken c & Dan Perry, i expect a good joke from that.

― diedre mousedropping (Dave225), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Surely people don't stuff dead pets, but animals that they hunted and killed? So it's not acceptable to have stuffed dead relatives, but it is acceptable to have stuffed dead fugitives that you stalked across the Mexican border, then slit their throat with a Bowie knife.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Why isn't Jezza's real head propped on his body?

― Rumpy Pumpkin, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

People stuff pets, I'm sure the old woman on All Creatures Great and Small had her dog stuffed....

― Rumpy Pumpkin, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Maybe he liked the view down there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

I think it's just a space issue.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

"Honey, there's no room for your Aunt Nora in the hall closet."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

http://www.petpreservations.com/faq.html

And the answer is very simple: one's an animal, the other's a human being and I'm quite sure there are laws about taxidermy for the latter.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

WE ARE ALL ANIMALS.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

I think there was a movie on this subject once. I never saw it, but it was called How to Stuff a Wild Bikini, I think.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

It's easier to preserve something and keep it around if you already see it as a possession.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

Laws? Pah... if my great aunt Alice stipulated in her will that she wanted stuffed and kept for posterity by God I'd fight through the courts to have it done.

The kids would love it.

― Rumpy Pumpkin, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

Do you remember that awful stuffed cat on That's Life?

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

They did this on Jackass, or Tom Green, I forget. He actually went to a taxidermist with his grandmother and just worked through how much it would theoretically cost.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

It was Jackass.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Some would say that it is acceptable.

― Rhodia (Rhodia), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

http://www.paperrad.org/extreme/catz.gif

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

I think the Jeremy Bentham head was removed as part of some student japes.

In response to the question, I think it's just as fine to do one as the other. Personally, I would like my head removed and placed on a wooden plaque with some kind of anamatronics so I could be like those annoying singing fish - I'd be nodding my head along and all of a sudden, mouth opens and...

"Wipeout".

― emil.y (emil.y), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

I really, really, really want to see a picture of that badly-taxidermied cat from That's Life, but I've been googling for it in vain. Surely there must be a picture of it out there somewhere?

― C J (C J), Thursday, 5 May 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)

I don't think it's terribly acceptable to stuff a dead pet. I think most people would find that bizarre. Though not as much as stuffing your aunt, abviously.

― sugarpants: new and improved! (sugarpants), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

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