taxidermy and you?

JIZZLORD

How many of you have / had stuffed dead annimals in their homes? I had a pheasant in the siting room, and i asked around and it turns around i wasn't alone, lots's of people have / had pheasants. Do you?

Terry

I tried to run over pheasants quite a few times, but they were too quick.

Anto McC

JIZZLORD wrote:

I had a pheasant in the siting room

I had a pig on my kitchen table. She didn't like me calling her that though...........particularly during the sex.

randylonghorn

Stuffing peasants in the house is fine, but they generally don't like to be called that ...

Wishbone Ash

A stuffed taxi driver would be nice!

JIZZLORD

i was kinda disapointed when my canadian co-worker had't any sort of moose back home

philcsl

We used to have a stuffed phesant and a stuffed fox at home... They're stowed away in the attic now, haven't seen them the last few times I was home.

They were very funny when we had friends staying over, just put the stuffed fox standing on the end of their bed before they wake up and then wait for the scream

JIZZLORD

it would have been funnier if you'd sourced a feral fox for the task

Ruu_Old

My Dad used to hunt alot, we had a fox and a few pheasants. I think they are gone now though.

JIZZLORD

the ma put our one in the attic years ago and last week she burned it :eek:
was it some sort of pre celtic tiger display of wealth and sophistication?

Trojan911

Wishbone Ash wrote:

A stuffed taxi driver would be nice!

Where would you put me?

Wertz

Some kid I used pal about with back in the annals of time, his dad was mad into fishing, had this sort of games room and on one wall was a glass case with the biggest pike I'd ever seen; you know how things are bigger when you're a kid, but this was still big. Was always fascinated by how they managed to preserve the scales and the fins and all.

Another one I remember was this pub down the street, also when I was young, had a barn owl in a case behind the counter...always made me feel sad for some reason, like it was frozen in time or something.
**** you OP, now I'm depressed...maybe stuffing yore ma will cheer me up...

WindSock

I wanted to stuff our dog when he died in his 'chasing car' position, but Ma was having none of it.

JIZZLORD

i think i'll bring my camera into college tomorrow and walk through the zoology department

plenty of owls

Dave!

I managed to get a hold of Johnny Cash's corpse when he died, and with a bit of help from an online tutorial, he's now standing proudly in my dining room. His eyes follow you around the room though, which is a bit creepy.

Exit

Far too many taxi threads lately.

eroo

i tried stuffing a bear....i should've checked to see if he was dead....

ow

bunny shooter

A pheasant, fallow stag head and a lovely grey squirrel

Thrill

The only stuffed animal I've ever had in my house is the christmas turkey.

/feels left out

Black Swan

Who would stuff animals?;)

The Hill Billy

Birds, dogs, foxes, pigs, chicks, several heifers from Mullingar - I've stuffed them all.

arybvtcw0eolkf

This thread brings back memories of two lovely pet monkeys I had.

Well they were both killed in a car crash and loving them like I did I didn't want to get rid of them.

So I brought them to a taxidermist to have 'em stuffed.

"Mmmmmmmmm Mairt, they're badly damaged but I'll try my best" .. Said the nice taxidermist "And when I'm finished would you like them mounted Mairt?" ... ...

"No, holding hands would be nice" ...

The Hill Billy

Deer, deer, that was un-bear-ably bad.
You moose-t try harder Mairt.

JIZZLORD

www.compsoc.nuigalway.ie/~c0lmjl/taxi

here's a couple of pics from the zoology department!

Clare Bear

philcsl wrote:

We used to have a stuffed phesant and a stuffed fox at home... They're stowed away in the attic now, haven't seen them the last few times I was home.

They were very funny when we had friends staying over, just put the stuffed fox standing on the end of their bed before they wake up and then wait for the scream

Ha ha brilliant!

We have a stuffed pheasant at home...it's been there since I was born so it doesn't freak me out but I'd hate to have any other kind of stuffed animal in the house, it's creepy. I don't get the whole thing with people getting their dead pets stuffed....as much as I miss my pets when they die I'd never do that...they usually look awful anyway.

Vegeta

yup we had a pheasant aswell

used to chase my cousins around the house with it as they hated it

Clare Bear

What is it with Dads and shooting pheasants? Mine's completely mellowed out these days though. Last time we saw a pheasant he was like wow look at that, isn't it beautiful. If that was 20 years ago he wouldn't have been able to get the gun out fast enough. The freak still shoots rabbits though, I'm not impressed.

Wertz

Nice pics JIZZLORD, that one with the kestrel and the rabbit is great...the platypus has seen better days though...could be doing with some Just For Men or something. That zebra foal is just wrong...

azezil

Like Ruu's da, mine too used to hunt a lot, so we've a couple of cock pheasants, mallards, snipe, grouse and a partridge in a pear tree!

JIZZLORD

the stuffed stuff in the zoology department must be as old as the hills, i'd say some of the stuff is up on 75+ years stuffed. i would have taken more but i didint want people staring at me while i photographed dead stuff

Clare Bear

JIZZLORD wrote:

the stuffed stuff in the zoology department must be as old as the hills, i'd say some of the stuff is up on 75+ years stuffed. i would have taken more but i didint want people staring at me while i photographed dead stuff

Yeah I've seen them myself, definitely a bit dated....aren't there ones in the Maths department there too?

JIZZLORD

the maths, math physics, zoology and botany departments share the building

there could be more dead stuff in the quad

Tar.Aldarion

None in my home, maths dep in nuig is a death zone.

JIZZLORD

luckily they never include a pic of the building in any of the prospectuses

Zzippy

JIZZLORD wrote:

it would have been funnier if you'd sourced a feral fox for the task

As opposed to.....a domestic fox??

kleefarr

JIZZLORD wrote:

taxidermy and you?

I don't know about me, but I was thinking of stuffing and mounting the wife. :rolleyes:

worben

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

Who would stuff animals?;)

Taxidermists

Nala

I think stuffing animals is creepy! Why would you want a dead animal staring at you????

JIZZLORD

i didnt choose to have a dead bird in the sitting room, dad shot it before i was born. Needless to say i kind of miss it!

Jesus Wept

randylonghorn wrote:

Stuffing peasants in the house is fine, but they generally don't like to be called that ...

I'm not the pheasant plucker I'm the pleasant fúckers son and I'm only fúcking peasants till the fúcking pheasant comes.

[/something to that effect]