Oh, the Weather Outside Is Frightful...

It's getting to be that time of year: you put some logs in the fireplace, get a comfy blaze going while the wind whips the snow outside your window, you pop open a bottle of wine and pull your lover close, curling up on the animal-skin rug in the middl-wait, holy crud, that's not the kind of rug I'm talking about:


That crocodile-skin rug is part of a taxidermy auction, guaranteeing that you'll be the only person who owns one. All I want to know is, who kills a gator and thinks, "that'd feel great on the bottoms of my feet when I hop out of bed on chilly mornings". I mean, other than a Predator or whatever Lou Gossett Jr. was in Enemy Mine. From the looks of the collection, it certainly could be the estate of a Predator. Maybe the have the skull of Jesse "The Body" Ventura on the auction block, too.

Regretsy

Etsy is a great place to find hand-made folk and fine arts, but - as you'd expect pretty much anywhere that people can post things without supervision - sometimes the products are a bit...off the wall:

According to Regretsy, the home for horrible Etsy products, the squirrel-fish taxidermy above could be purchased for the low, low price of $350.00. I'll bet, if I comparison-shopped, I could buy a freakin' crate of non-fishy taxidermied squirrels, which I could then superglue fish heads on to. And I realize, well, if I am going through so much work to try and reproduce, en masse, the insane work of art above, I should probably just pay the guy $350.

Funerals And Dead Squirrels

Cress Funeral Home in Madison, Wisconsin is home to something amazing - more amazing than dead old people waiting to be dressed. If you can make it past the caskets and grieving survivors, in the basement is a museum of taxidermy squirrels, partaking in human past-times, such as getting drunk:

It's always good to have something absurdly happy to occupy yourself with while waiting for the prayer service to start!

Via!

Pugcocks!

Oh, dear; oh dear, dear, dear....Fluffy! Bad Dog! No having sex with the chickens! NO!

This is why you keep your fowl and your canines apart; once the dogs learn how to fly, there will be no stopping them. No matter how unbelievably cute they are, no cage can hold them.